Jean 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 (1677) / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Phèdre : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Athalie : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Athalie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Athalie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Britannicus / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Andromaque : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Andromaque / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Bérénice / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Britannicus : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Iphigénie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Esther : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Esther / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Théâtre en deux volumes / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Les plaideurs : comédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Britannicus : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Athalie : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Iphigénie : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Esther : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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Mithridate : tragédie / by Racine, Jean 1639-1699
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