Composers and their stage works 

Jean Baptiste Racine

(1639 - 1699)

French dramatist. Born La Ferté-Milon December, 1639; died 21 April, 1699.

Stage Works

All plays are in verse. Unless otherwise noted, they were first performed in Paris.

  1. La Thébaide, ou Les frères ennemis (The Thebans, or The Enemy Brothers). Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1664. Produced Palais-Royal, June 20, 1664.
  2. Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great). Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1666. Produced Palais-Royal, Dec. 4, 1665 Hôtel de Bourgogne, Dec. 18, 1665.
  3. Andromaque (Andromache). Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1668. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, Nov. 7, 1667.
  4. Les plaideurs (The Litigants). Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1669. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, late 1668. Based on Aristophanes's The Wasps.
  5. Britannicus. Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1670. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, Dec. 13, 1669.
  6. Bérénice (Berenice). Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1671. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, Nov. 21, 1670.
  7. Bajazet. Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1672. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, Jan. 1, 1672.
  8. Mithridate (Mithridates). Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1673. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, January, 1673.
  9. Iphigénie (Iphigenia). Tragedy, 5 acts. Published 1675. Produced Versailles, Aug. 18, 1674; Paris, Hôtel de Bourgogne, late 1674.
  10. Phèdre (Phaedra). Tragedy, 5 acts. Written 1676. Published 1677. Produced Hôtel de Bourgogne, Jan. 1, 1677.
  11. Esther. Tragedy, 3 acts. Written 1688. Published 1689. Produced Saint-Cyr, Mme. de Maintenon's school for young ladies, Jan. 26, 1689 Paris, Comédie-Française, May 8, 1721.
  12. Athalie (Athaliah). Tragedy, 5 acts. Written 1690/91. Published 1691. Produced Versailles, by students from Mme. de Maintenon' s school for young ladies, February, 1691 Paris, Comédie-Française, Mar. 3, 1716.

Criticism.

  1. M. B. de Bury, Racine and the French Classical Drama, London, 1845
  2. F. Hawkins, Annals of the French Stage from Its Origin to the Death of Racine, London, 1884
  3. D. F. C. Fisher, Corneille and Racine in England: A Study of the English Translations of the Two Corneilles and Racine, New York, 1904
  4. M. Cowley, Racine, Paris, 1923
  5. M. Duclaux, The Life of Racine, London, 1925, New York, 1926
  6. J. Giraudoux, Racine, tr. by P. M. Jones, Cambridge, England, 1938
  7. A. F. B. Clark, Jean Racine, Cambridge, Mass., 1939
  8. M. Turnell, The Classical Moment: Studies of Corneille, Molière and Racine, London, 1946
  9. V. Orgel, A New View of the Plays of Racine, London, 1948
  10. G. Brereton, Jean Racine, London, 1951
  11. K. Wheatley, Racine and English Classicism, Austin, Tex., 1956
  12. E. Vinaver, Racine and Poetic Tragedy, tr. by P. M. Jones, Manchester, England, 1955, New York, 1959
  13. K. Muir, Last Periods of Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, Detroit, 1961
  14. M.-H. Beyle, Racine and Shakespeare, tr. by G. Daniels, New York, 1962;
  15. B. Weinberg, The Art of Jean Racine, Chicago, 1963
  16. R. Barthes, On Racine, tr. by R. Howard, New York, 1964
  17. L. Goldmann, The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Penseés of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine, tr. by P. Thody, London and New York, 1964
  18. J. C. Lapp, Aspects of Racinian Tragedy, Toronto, 1964
  19. J. A. Stone, Sophocles and Racine, Geneva, 1964
  20. P. France, Racine's Rhetoric, Oxford, 1965
  21. R. J. Nelson, Corneille and Racine: Parallels and Contrasts, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1966
  22. O. de Mourgues, Racine, or The Triumph of Relevance, London, 1967;
  23. A. A. Tilley, Three French Dramatists: Racine, Marivaux, Mussel, reprint, New York, 1967
  24. B. L. Knapp, Jean Racine: Mythos and Renewal in Modern Theater, Alabama, 1971
  25. G. Brereton, Jean Racine: A Critical Biography, London and New York, 1973.
  26. L. Racine, Mémoire sur la vie de Jean Racine, 2 vols., Lausanne and Geneva, 1747
  27. M.-H. Beyle, Racine et Shakespeare, 2d ed., Paris, 1854
  28. F. Deltour, Les ennemis de Racine au XVlle siècle, Paris, 1859
  29. J.-J.-E. Roy, Histoire de Jean Racine, Tours, 1863
  30. P. Mesnard, Notice bibliographique de Racine, Paris, 1865-1873;
  31. P. Robert, La poétique de Racine, Paris, 1890;
  32. E. Deschanel, Racine, 2 vols., Paris, 1891
  33. P. Monceaux, Racine, Paris, 1892
  34. G. Larroumet, Racine, Paris, 1898
  35. J. Lemaître, Jean Racine, 18th ed., Paris, 1908
  36. G. Truc, Le cas Racine , Paris,1921
  37. L. Dubech, Jean Racine, politique, Paris, 1926
  38. E. Renan, Sur Corneille, Racine et Bossuet, Paris, 1926
  39. G. Truc, Jean Racine: L'artiste, l'homme et le temps, Paris, 1926
  40. F. Mauriac, La vie de Jean Racine, Paris,1928
  41. H. Bremond, Racine et Valéry, Paris, 1930
  42. J. Giraudoux, Racine, Paris, 1930
  43. J. Lichtenstein, Racine, poète biblique, Paris, 1934
  44. J. Talagrand, Racine, Paris, 1935
  45. M.-M.-L. Saint-René Taillandier, Racine, enl. ed., Paris, 1940
  46. J.-L.-P. Segond, Psychologie de Jean Racine, Paris, 1940
  47. E. E. Williams, Racine depuis 1885: Bibliographie raisonnée, Baltimore, 1940
  48. P. Brisson, Les deux visages de Racine, Paris, 1944
  49. O. Mornet, Jean Racine, Paris, 1944
  50. P. Moreau, Racine: L'homme et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1945
  51. A. Bailly, Racine, Paris, 1946
  52. P. Guéguen, Poésie de Racine, Paris, 1946
  53. P. de Lacretelle, La vie privée de Racine, Paris, 1946
  54. F. Lion, Les rêves de Racine, Paris, 1948
  55. G. C. May, Tragédie cornélienne, tragédie racinienne, Urbana, Ill., 1948
  56. M. Cambier, Racine et Madame de Maintenon, Brussels, 1949
  57. G. C. May, D'Ovide à Racine, Paris, 1949
  58. R. C. Knight, Racine et la Grèce, Paris, 1951
  59. E. Vinaver, Racine et la poésie tragique, Paris, 1951
  60. J.-J.-M. Pommier, Aspects de Racine, Paris, 1954
  61. L. Goldmann, Le Dieu caché: Etude sur la vision tragique dans les Pensées de Pascal et dans le théâtre de Racine, Paris, 1956
  62. id., Jean Racine, dramaturge, Paris, 1956
  63. J.-D. Hubert, Essai d'exégèse racinienne, Paris, 1956
  64. R. Picard, La carrière de Jean Racine, Paris, 1956
  65. M. Descotes, Les grands rôles du théâtre de Jean Racine, Paris, 1957
  66. C. Mauron, L'inconscient dans l'oeuvre et la vie de Racine, Gap, France, 1957
  67. R. Jasinski, Vers le vrai Racine, 2 vols., Paris, 1958
  68. P. Butler, Classicisme et baroque dans l'oeuvre de Racine, Paris, 1959
  69. L. Vaurois, L'enfance et la jeunesse de Racine, Paris, 1964
  70. M. Blom, Le thème symbolique dans le théâtre de Racine, 2 vols., Paris, 1962-1965
  71. J. Mercanton, Racine, Paris, 1966
  72. O. de Mourgues, Autonomie de Racine, Paris, 1967
  73. R. Picard, Racine polémiste, Paris, 1967
  74. B. C. Freeman, ed., Concordance de théâtre et des poésies de Jean Racine, 2 vols., Ithaca, N.Y., 1968
  75. J. J. Roubine, Lectures de Racine, Paris, 1971
  76. G. Borgal, Racine, Paris, 1974
  77. R. C. Night, Racine et la Grèce, Paris, 1974
  78. A. Niderst, Les tragédies de Racine. Diversité et unité, Paris, 1975
  79. E. Batache-Watt, Profils des héroïnes raciniennes, Paris, 1976;
  80. Racine: Mythes et réalités, W. Ontario, 1976.