Jean Racine

Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 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.

...et la nuit comme le jour illumine - 2024-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z

500 citations des grands écrivains français du 17ème siècle - 2022-06-09T00:00:00.000000Z

100 Quotes by Jean Racine - 2022-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

500 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 17th Century - 2022-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

100 Zitate von Jean Racine (Sammlung 100 Zitate) - 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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