Jean Racine (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʁasin]), baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699), was a French dramatist and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such ‘examples of neoclassical perfection’ as
Phèdre,
Andromaque, and
Athalie.
Racine’s plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic alexandrine; he is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what Robert Lowell described as a ‘diamond-edge’, and the ‘glory of its hard, electric rage’. Racine’s dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9791220295833 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Publisher latorre editore ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7817236 ● Copy protection without
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