Jean Racine
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Jean-Baptiste Racine 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 traditi
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Santerre
Jean Racine
Jean Racine on the 1989 USSR commemorative stamp
Phèdre
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Phèdre is a French tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
Jean Racine
…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…
Title page from the first edition of Phèdre et Hippolyte
Phaedra and Hippolytus, c. 290 AD
Phèdre and Thésée (1923), Léon Bakst
“Phèdre et Hippolyte,” par Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Louvre Photo des Musées Nationaux, Paris