Jean Racine

Jean Racine (pengucapan bahasa Prancis: [ʒɑ̃ ʁaˈsin]) (22 Desember 1639 – 21 April 1699) adalah seorang pembuat drama Perancis, satu dari "tiga besar" terbaik Perancis abad ke-17 (bersama dengan Molière dan Corneille), dan salah seorang figur sastra terpenting dalam tradisi Barat. Racine merupakan seorang tragedian, meskipun ia mengarang satu komedi.

Jean Racine, oleh Pierre Savart.

Jean Racine juga merupakan bekas nama bobsledder Jean Prahm.

Artikel ini bukan mengenai Jean-François Racine atau Jean-Paul Racine.

Karya

• La Thébaïde (1664)
• Alexandre le Grand (1665)
• Andromaque (1667)
• Les Plaideurs (1668)
• Britannicus(1669)
• Bérénice (1670)
• Bajazet (1672)
• Mithridate (1673)
• Iphigénie (1674)
• Phèdre (1677)
• Esther (drama) (1689)
• Athalie (1691)

Pranala luar

• Biography, Bibliography, Analysis, Plot overview (in French)
• Karya Jean Racine di Project Gutenberg
• http://www.verbumvanum.org/indexgreek.html for a philological study of the evolution of Hippolytus as a chastity paradigm in Euripides, Seneca, Racine; extensive bibliography (in Dutch)
• Racine's Works on Bartleby.com at http://www.bartleby.com/people/Racine-J.html
• Many Full Versions of Racine's Plays on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Jean+Racine&ots=Ck_Gtq5bNg&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=author-navigational
• Complete Theater to download on line (Poesies.net in French)
• Complete Tragedies and the Comedy to edit with statistics and powerful research (theatre-clasique.fr in French)
• A page on an upcoming production of Phèdre by Charles Di Meglio

Sumber

• Roland Barthes - Sur Racine
• Georges Forestier - Jean Racine (Gallimard, 2006) (ISBN 2-07-075529-0)
• Lewis, W.H. The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louix XIV'.' William Sloane Associates, 1953.
• Jean Rohou - Jean Racine : entre sa carrière, son oeuvre et son dieu (Fayard, 1992)
• Butler, John. "Racine: A Study." London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1974.
• "Racine, Jean." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 30 Nov. 2007 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062376>.

Didahului oleh: François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer

Académie française Kursi 13 1672–1699

Diteruskan oleh: Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour