Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN) (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 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. |
Birth and Death Data: Born December 22, 1639 (La Ferté-Milon), Died April 21, 1699 (Paris)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1910 - 1928
Roles Represented in DAHR: author
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Edison | 367 | Not documented | approximately Oct. 1910 | La déclaration | Sarah Bernhardt | Recitation | author | |
Gramophone | BB14067 | 10-in. | 7/11/1928 | Athalie | E. M. Stéphan | Recitation | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Racine, Jean," accessed October 11, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102296.
Racine, Jean. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102296.
"Racine, Jean." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 11 October 2024.
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LCNAR: Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018531
Wikidata: Jean Racine - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q742
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/88809641
MusicBrainz: Jean Racine - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/591d7cdd-736b-45fd-9957-74570aeccde5
ISNI: 0000 0001 2321 2338 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000123212338
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