OEuvres complètes

by Jean Racine

Oeuvres complètes de Jean Racine

Ce livre numérique présente une collection des oeuvres complètes de Jean Racine éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres.

Liste des oeuvres:

- 1664 - La Thébaïde ou les frères ennemis
- 1665 - Alexandre Le Grand
- 1667 - Andromaque
- 1667 Post - Abrégé de l'histoire de Port Royal
- 1668 - Les plaideurs
- 1669 - Britannicus
- 1670 - Bérénice
- 1672 - Bajazet
- 1673 - Mithridate
- 1674 - Iphigénie en Aulide
- 1677 - Phèdre
- 1685 - Réponse au discours de Corneille et Bergeret
- 1685 - Sur les vaines occupations des gens du siècle
- 1689 - Esther
- 1691 - Athalie

Genres: France

1920 pages, Hardcover

Published March 3, 1999

About the author

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 his grandfather in 1649, his grandmother, Marie des Moulins, went to live in the convent of Port-Royal and took her grandson Jean-Baptiste. He received a classical education at the Petites écoles de Port-Royal, a religious institution that greatly influenced other contemporary figures, including Blaise Pascal.

The French bishops and the pope condemned Jansenism, a heretical theology, but its followers ran Port-Royal. Interactions of Racine with the Jansenists in his years at this academy great influenced the rest of his life. At Port-Royal, he excelled in his studies of the classics, and the themes of Greek and Roman mythology played large roles in his works.

Jean Racine died from cancer of the liver. He requested burial in Port-Royal, but after Louis XIV razed this site in 1710, people moved his body to the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris.

*source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ra...