"Which French dramatist, one of the ""Big Three"" of 17th century France and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition wrote the comedy ""Les Plaideurs"" and the tragedies ""Alexandre le Grand"", ""Andromaque"", ""Athalie"", ""Bajazet"", ""Brnice"", ""Britannicus"", ""Esther"", ""Iphignie"", ""La Thbade"", ""Mithridate"" and ""Phdre""?"
Jean Racine Theater for the New City in New York City May 3–20, 2018 using Howard Rubenstein's translation/adaptation. Shela Xoregos directed. Jean Racine Jean Racine (), baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 163921 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as "Phèdre", "Andromaque", and "Athalie", although he did write one comedy, "Les Plaideurs", and a muted tragedy, "Esther", for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic
Jean Racine parallel themes of blind and unnatural fatherhood and the retribution it invokes, in "King Lear") and in ruling out the comic element. The fact that Act II scene 5 of "Andromaque" or many of the scenes of "Alexandre le Grand" and "Mithridate" have comic undertones is beside the point. Will Andromaque agree to marry Pyrrhus? Will Agamemnon sacrifice Iphigénie? Can Esther persuade her husband to spare the Jews? The plots of "Bajazet", "Phèdre" and "Athalie" are scarcely more complex than the rest. Unlike such plays as "Hamlet" and "The Tempest", in which a dramatic first scene precedes the exposition, a