Jean Racine, French playwright and poet (born 1639)

Jean Racine

17th-century French dramatist (1639–1699)

Jean-Baptiste Racine 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. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such…