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Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ r æ ˈ s iː n / rass-EEN, US also / r ə ˈ s iː n / 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.
Jean Racine was a French dramatic poet and historiographer renowned for his mastery of French classical tragedy. His reputation rests on the plays he wrote between 1664 and 1691, notably Andromaque (first performed 1667, published 1668), Britannicus (first performed 1669, published 1670), Bérénice
Cantique de Jean Racine (Chant by Jean Racine), Op. 11, is a composition for mixed choir and piano or organ by Gabriel Fauré. The text, "Verbe égal au Très-Haut" ("Word, one with the Highest"), is a French paraphrase by Jean Racine of a Latin hymn from the breviary for matins, Consors paterni luminis. The nineteen-year-old composer set the ...
Jean Racine - French Dramatist, Tragedies, Phedre: French classical tragedy pivots on two basic subjects: passion and politics. Since the audience of 17th-century monarchical France was naturally intrigued by plots that dealt with the succession to a throne, Racine doubled their pleasure in his first successful play, La Thébaide (first performed and published in 1664), by creating two ...
Phèdre (French:; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic 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.
May 23, 2018 · RACINE, JEAN (1639 – 1699) RACINE, JEAN (1639 – 1699), French playwright and author. Racine was born in La Fert é -Milon, northeast of Paris. His parents died when he was very young, and he was therefore raised mostly by his maternal grandmother, Marie Desmoulins.
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Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 – April 21, 1699) was a French poet dramatist, and one of the most important figures in seventeenth-century French literature along with Jean-Baptiste Molière and Pierre Corneille. Racine was the pre-eminent tragedian of his day—many consider him to be the father of French tragedy, just as Molière is ...
