Collection: Jean-Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine (born 21 December 1639, died 21 April 1699) French playwright, counted (together with Molière and Corneille) as one of the three great French playwrights of the 17th century. Author of tragedies based on classical motifs (mythological and historical): Andromache (1667), Phaedra (1677), Iphigenia (1674), Berenice (1670), Britannicus (1669); biblical: Esther (1689), Athaliah (1691) and the only satirical comedy, The Lathering Men (Les Plaideurs, 1668) – after Aristophanes.
