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Jean Racine   /dʒin rəsˈin/   Listen
Jean Racine

noun
1.
French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).  Synonyms: Jean Baptiste Racine, Racine.





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"Jean Racine" Quotes from Famous Books



... II. her brother. Titus fell in love with her and would have married her, but the Romans compelled him to renounce the idea, and a separation took place. Otway (1672) made this the subject of a tragedy called Titus and Berenice; and Jean Racine (1670), in his tragedy of Berenice, has made her ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.


Words linked to "Jean Racine" :   dramatist, poet, playwright


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