Jean Racine, whose incredible mastery of the alexandrine and of the French language has been praised for centuries, created plays such as ''Phèdre'' or ''Britannicus''. He is, along with Pierre Corneille (''Le Cid'') and Molière, considered one of the three great dramatists of France's golden age. Molière, who is deemed to be one of the greatest masters of comedy of the Western literature, wrote dozens of plays, including ''Le Misanthrope'', ''L'Avare'', ''Le Malade imaginaire'', as well as ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''. His plays have been so popular around the world that the French language is sometimes dubbed as "the language of Molière" (''la langue de Molière''), just like English is considered "the language of Shakespeare".