Author of Audiobooks - Jean Racine
Phaedra - Jean Racine
Phaedra - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
In the court of Louis XIV, adaptations of Greek tragedies were very popular. This play, heavily influenced by Euripides' Hippolytus, deals with love that violates social taboos. Note: In Racine's work, a new "scene" begins whenever a character...
Andromache - Jean Racine
Andromache - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
In this tragedy [about part of the aftermath of the Trojan War], which made its appearance in 1667, there is a more intricate plot than is usual in Racine's plays, and it offers a greater variety of character and motive. Love, jealousy, friendship,...
The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War - Jean Racine
The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
"The reign of Louis XIV. in France, like the age of Pericles at ancient Athens, was remarkable for literary excellence no less than for military achievements. Like Euripides, Racine confined himself almost exclusively to tragedy.... It was under...
Bajazet - Jean Racine
Bajazet - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
"The time to which this tragedy relates is much later than that of any other of Racine's historical plays. The capture of Babylon (or rather Bagdad) from the Persians by Sultan Amurath IV, on which the catastrophe of the plot depends, occurred only...
Berenice - Jean Racine
Berenice - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
Titus, emperor of Rome, wants to marry Berenice, queen of Palestine, but decides that Rome will not be able to handle having him marry a foreign queen. Berenice refuses to stay in this case and leaves Rome. Unlike many of the other Racine plays,...
Alexander the Great - Jean Racine
Alexander the Great - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Drama
Racine caused furour in the French theater community with his second play, Alexander the Great, when "The sensitive poet seems to have been disgusted by the manner in which it was being acted; for, a fortnight after it had been put on the boards at...
The Litigants - Jean Racine
The Litigants - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Satire
This play, which is neither a comedy or a farce but has elements in common with each, was first performed in 1668 at Paris, and afterwards at Versailles. It is a French adaptation of "The Wasps" of Aristophanes. Racine's own experience of law and...
Mithridates - Jean Racine
Mithridates - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
Another tragedy by Racine, based on the historical character and career of Mithridates circa 63 BCE. Closing with sorrow and lamentation and promises of a "search for vengeance". - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Mithridates, King of Pontus and of many...
Britannicus - Jean Racine
Britannicus - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
Britannicus is son and heir of the Roman emperor Claudius. However, this does not please Nero, who wants both throne and Britannicus's fiancee Junia. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Nero, emperor, son of Agrippina: Dale Burgess Britannicus, son of...
Iphigenia - Jean Racine
Iphigenia - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
Racine's version of the time-honored story of Iphigenia was acted for the first time in 1674. The model upon which it is shaped is the "Iphigenia in Aulis" of his favorite Euripides, but the French poet has heightened the romantic interest and...