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Jean Racine

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Jean Racine


Born
in La Ferté-Milon, Aisne, Picardy, France
December 22, 1639

Died
April 21, 1699

Genre
Theatre

Influences
Euripides, Virgil ...more


Classical Greek and Roman themes base noted tragedies, such as Britannicus (1669) and Phèdre (1677), of French playwright Jean Baptiste Racine.

Adherents of movement of Cornelis Jansen included Jean Baptiste Racine.


This dramatist ranks alongside Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) and Pierre Corneille of the "big three" of 17th century and of the most important literary figures in the western tradition. Psychological insight, the prevailing passion of characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage mark dramaturgy of Racine. Although primarily a tragedian, Racine wrote one comedy.

Orphaned by the age of four years when his mother died in 1641 and his father died in 1643, he came into the care of his grandparents. At the death of ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.67 · 48,021 ratings · 2,239 reviews · 2,037 distinct works • Similar authors
Phèdre
3.69 avg rating — 24,409 ratings — published 1677
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Andromaque
3.70 avg rating — 10,009 ratings — published 1667 — 251 editions
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Britannicus
3.51 avg rating — 4,033 ratings — published 1669
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Bérénice
3.75 avg rating — 3,264 ratings — published 1670 — 131 editions
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Iphigénie
3.57 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 1674 — 150 editions
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Athalie
3.46 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1690 — 223 editions
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Bajazet
3.48 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1672 — 89 editions
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Iphigenia / Phaedra / Athaliah
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3.80 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1963 — 21 editions
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3.75 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1677 — 13 editions
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Mithridate
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3.54 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1673 — 69 editions
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“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine
tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy
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“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
― Jean Racine
tags: blood, death, sadness, tragedy
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“I have loved him too much not to hate”
― Jean Racine, Andromaque
tags: hate, love, passion
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Polls

October 2024 Old School Classics Poll

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, 1819, 496p

 
  66 votes, 30.3%

 
  40 votes, 18.3%

 
  39 votes, 17.9%

Phaedrus by Plato, -300, 144p
 
  31 votes, 14.2%

On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev, 1860, 234p
 
  15 votes, 6.9%

 
  14 votes, 6.4%

Phèdre by Jean Racine, 1677, 192p
 
  13 votes, 6.0%

218 total votes
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