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Jean Racine
17th-century French dramatist (1639–1699)
For other people named Jean Racine, see Jean Racine (disambiguation).
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Jean-Baptiste Racine (rass-EEN, rə-SEEN; French:[ʒɑ̃batistʁasin]; 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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Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection"[1] as Phèdre,[2]Andromaque,[3] and Athalie.[4] He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs,[5] and a muted tragedy, Esther[6] 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,[7][8]