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Racine, Jean (2001), Phèdre, Nick Hern Books, ISBN 978-1-85459-094-7 (English translation by Julie Rose) Racine, Jean (1987), Phaedra : tragedy in five acts, 1677, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 015675780X (translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur)
Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse.It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Marie Thérèse, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Comédiens", with Thérèse Du Parc in the title role.
Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia) was the first opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau.It was premiered to great controversy by the Académie Royale de Musique at its theatre in the Palais-Royal in Paris on October 1, 1733.
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.
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Sergine was a stage actress in Paris. She appeared in Une lâche (1907) with Albert Dieudonné, [3] Le Grand Soir (1908), [4] [5] The Children's Cardinal, L'Aiglon, [6] and Racine's Phedre. [7] Critic André Germain counted her as one of the "three best actresses in Paris" in 1921, alongside Berthe Bady and Ève Francis. [8]
Molière and Racine, perhaps the greatest writers of classical alexandrines in comedy and tragedy respectively. The French alexandrine ( French : alexandrin ) is a syllabic poetic metre of (nominally and typically) 12 syllables with a medial caesura dividing the line into two hemistichs (half-lines) of six syllables each.
Jacques Pradon, often called Nicolas Pradon (1632 – 14 January 1698), was a French playwright. Early in his career, he was helped by Pierre Corneille and was introduced to the salons at the Hôtel de Nevers [a] and the Hôtel de Bouillon by Madame Deshoulières.