What is Jean Racine?
[[File:Jean Racine by Savart Head.jpg|thumb|Jean Racine, in an engraving by [[Pierre Savart]].]] '''Jean Racine''' (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a [[France|French]] [[playwright]]. He was one of the most famous of the [[17th century]] in France (with [[Molière]] and [[Pierre Corneille|Corneille]]). Racine was mostly a [[Tragedy|tragedian]], even though he did write one [[comedy]]. == Works == * [[La Thébaïde]] (1664) * [[Alexandre le Grand]] (1665) * [[Andromaque]] (1667) * [[Les Plaideurs]] (1668) * [[Britannicus (play)|Britannicus]] (1669) * [[Bérénice]] (1670) * [[Bajazet (play)|Bajazet]] (1672) * Mithridate (1673) * [[Iphigenia|Iphigénie]] (1674) * [[Phèdre]] (1677) * [[Esther (drama)]] (1689) * [[Athalie]] (1691) {{bio-stub}} [[Category:French playwrights]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Racine, Jean}} [[Category:1639 births]] [[Category:1699 deaths]]