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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.
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.
Britannicus is a five-act tragic play by the French dramatist Jean Racine. It was first performed on 13 December 1669 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. [1] Britannicus is the first play in which Racine depicted Roman history.
List of French playwrights. 2 languages. ... Jean Racine (1639–1699) Jacques Robbe (1643-1721) Charles Rivière Dufresny (1648–1724) Jean Palaprat (1650–1721)
Esther is a play in three acts written in 1689 by the French dramatist, Jean Racine. It was premièred on January 26, 1689, performed by the pupils of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, an educational institute for young girls of noble birth. The subject is taken from the biblical Book of Esther.
Aomawa Baker (Andromache) in Euripides' The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company in Los Angeles, 2003. Andromache is the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine (1639–1699), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. "The Andromache" is referenced in The ...
Hôtel de Bourgogne (French pronunciation: [otɛl də buʁɡɔɲ]) was a theatre, built in 1548 for the first authorized theatre troupe in Paris, the Confrérie de la Passion. It was located on the rue Mauconseil (now the rue Étienne Marcel in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris ), on a site that had been part of the residence of the Dukes of ...
In the late 1930s, she often played the title role in Jean Racine's Phèdre. [4] She also had the title role in Racine's Britannicus [5] and in Baisers perdus in 1932. [6] Navar also performed in films, among them The Road Is Fine (1930), directed by Robert Florey, and The Foreigner (1931), directed by Gaston Ravel.