Andromaque
Premier chef-d'oeuvre de Racine, qui lui valut, à vingt-sept ans, d'être comparé au grand Corneille, Andromaque fut à sa création un véritable triomphe. En réinventant l'histoire de la veuve d'Hector captive de Pyrrhus, roi d'Épire, il inaugurait une nouvelle forme de tragédie, où l'amour devenait source de tous les périls et de tous les égarements. Dans cette pièce aux puissants effets pathétiques, marquée par le désordre extrême des sentiments, les personnages, emportés par leurs passions, se livrent aux pires excès sans jamais cesser d'être d'authentiques héros.
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Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French: ; 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. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, 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, and for what American poet 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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