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Definition of Jean Racine
1. Noun. French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
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Literary usage of Jean Racine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... Jean Racine (1639-1699) BY FREDERICK MORRIS WARREN THE time French classical
tragedy had reached Racine, in its development from the Latin drama of ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"Œuvres Complètes de Jean Racine, &c. ie The Complete Works of JOHN RACINE, with
a Commentary by M. De La Harfe; to which are added several Pieces cither ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"23 8 de Jean Racine' (Lausanne 1747) ; Roy, JJE, 'Histoire de Jean Racine' ...
RACINE, Louis, French poet and critic, second son of Jean Racine (qv) : b. ..."
4. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Jean Racine (1639-1699) BY FREDERICK MORRIS WARREN THE time French classical
tragedy had reached Racine, in its development from the Latin drama of Seneca, ..."
5. Port Royal: A Contribution to the History of Religion and Literature in France by Charles Beard (1861)
"Jean Racine was born on the 21st of December, 1639, and consequently had not
reached his fourth year when thus orphaned. How or where his childish years ..."
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