Iphigénie
Iphigénie est innocente et vertueuse ; c'est pourtant elle que son père doit se résoudre à sacrifier. Iphigénie incarne la douceur et la tendresse ; c'est pourtant elle qui est au centre du déchaînement des fureurs familiales. Iphigénie exalte le dévouement et l'abnégation jusqu'au sublime ; c'est pourtant elle qui subit les lâchetés et les excès dévastateurs. Tels sont les tragiques paradoxes d'Iphigénie, où l'oracle divin ne semble rien d'autre que le révélateur des passions des hommes.
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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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