Biography
Jean Racine was born in 1639 in La Ferté-Milon and is considered alongside Corneille the greatest tragic poet of France. His verses of crystalline beauty created masterpieces like Phèdre, Andromaque, and Bérénice. Racine perfected classical French tragedy according to the rules of the three unities. His female figures are among the most complex in world literature. He died in 1699 in Paris.
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