Jean Racine

Portrait of Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as ''Phèdre'', ''Andromaque'', and ''Athalie''. He did write one comedy, ''Les Plaideurs'', and a muted tragedy, ''Esther'' for the young.

Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage. Provided by Wikipedia
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Phèdre tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
Published 1972
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Mithridate
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1951
Book
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Phèdre tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1965
Book
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Book
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Fedra
Facultad de Comunicación Social
by Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
Published 1972
Book
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Théâtre complet
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1953
Book
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Bajazet
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1954
Book
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Les plaideurs
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1950
Book
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Athalie tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1942
Book
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Esther tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1935
Book
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Britannicus tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1935
Book
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Bérénice tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1935
Book
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Bérénice tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1940
Book
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Iphigénie tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1933
Book
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Bérénice tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1964
Book
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Théâtre en deux volumes
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1939
Book
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Andromaque tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1933
Book
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Théatre complet
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
Published 1863
Book
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Andromaque tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
Published 1979
Book
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Iphigénie tragédie
Facultad de Lenguas
by Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
Published 1980
Book
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