Jean Racine
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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 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 French alex
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17th-century French dramatist (1639–1699)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Racine
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2002-05-16T13:55:02Z
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2024-09-08T00:03:54Z
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