Jean Racine
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 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 (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1975[Lille, France] : Service de réproduction des thèses, Université de Lille III, 1975.3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. -
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Published 1676A Paris, : Chez Jean Ribou ..., M. DC. LXXVI. [1676]1 online resource (2 v. ([12], 364, [16], 324, [16], 74, [16], 86, [24], 114 p.)) : ill.Center for Research Libraries
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Published 1676A Paris, : Chez Jean Ribou ..., M. DC. LXXVI. [1676]2 v. ([12], 364, [16], 324, [16], 74, [16], 86, [24], 114 p.) : ill. -
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Published 1740Leipzig : In Commission bei Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, [ca. 1740][2], 544 p. ; 18 cm. -
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Published 1668A Paris, : Chez Thomas Iolly ..., M. DC. LXVIII. [1668][12], 95, [3] p. -
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Published 1691A Paris, Chez Denys Thierry, ruë Saint Jacques, à la ville de Paris, 1691.6 p. l., 87 p. plate. 25 cm. -
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