Jean Racine

Jean Racine (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʁasin]), baptismal name 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), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such 'examples of neoclassical perfection' as Phèdre,^[2] Andromaque,^[3] and Athalie,^[4] although he did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs,^[5] and a muted tragedy,^[6] Esther, for the young.

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