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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.
Birth date and age 1 Claude Dagens: 2008 20 May 1940 (age 84) 2 Dany Laferrière: 2013 13 April 1953 (age 71) 3 Vacant since the death of Jean-Denis Bredin. 4 Jean-Luc Marion: 2008 3 July 1946 (age 78) 5 Andreï Makine: 2016 10 September 1957 (age 67) 6 Christian Jambet: 2024 23 April 1949 (age 75)
At age 19, in 1864–65, he composed Cantique de Jean Racine, scored for four vocal parts and piano or organ and that time he received the first prize in the 1865 contest. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Fauré's Cantique was first performed on 4 August 1866 in a version with strings and organ, the organ played by the composer, when the new organ of the Saint ...
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.
Racine, Jean (1987), Phaedra : tragedy in five acts, 1677, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 015675780X (translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur) Racine, Jean (2010), Racine's Phèdre , CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 978-1453629352 (translated into English verse by Harold Anthony Lloyd)
Berenice (French: Bérénice) is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. Berenice was not played often between the 17th and the 20th centuries.. It was premiered on 21 November 1670 by the Comédiens du Roi at the Hôtel de Bourgogne. [1]
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.
Jean-Bernard Racine is the author of many articles and books in the fields of quantitative geography, epistemology and social geography. Influenced by Brian Berry , Walter Isard , Peter Gould and David Harvey , he published L’Analyse quantitative en géographie in 1973 with H. Reymond and was widely considered one of the pioneers of the ...