WRITER

Jean Racine

1639 - 1699

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Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Racine has received more than 840,690 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Jean Racine is the 150th most popular writer (up from 157th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from France (up from 196th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Writer.

Jean Racine is most famous for his dramatic tragedies, "Andromaque," "Phèdre," and "Berenice."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Phèdre
Drama
Offers a verse translation of the seventeenth-century French play about Phaedra and her tragic obsession with her stepson, Hippolytus
1805
Britannicus
1757
Théâtre complet
1844
Bérénice
1671
Athalie
1691
Andromaque
1675

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Racine ranks 150 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter Scott, Dr. Seuss, Eugène Ionesco, Joan Fuster, Elias Canetti, and William Faulkner. After him are Naguib Mahfouz, Annie Ernaux, Joseph Conrad, Catullus, Novalis, and Fernando Pessoa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Jean Racine ranks 1. After him are Ivan Mazepa, Dom Pérignon, Marie Mancini, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Laura Martinozzi, Caspar Netscher, Gottfried Kirch, and Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1699, Jean Racine ranks 1. After him are Christian V of Denmark, Henry Every, Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Mattia Preti, Hortense Mancini, Marco d'Aviano, Lucrezia Barberini, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, François Le Fort, and Patrick Gordon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Racine ranks 168 out of 6,770. Before him are Peter Abelard (1079), Philip VI of France (1293), Pope Martin IV (1220), Théodore Géricault (1791), Jacques Cousteau (1910), and Henry Cavendish (1731). After him are Tacitus (54), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Edward IV of England (1442), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), and Pope Urban V (1310).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Racine ranks 33. Before him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Paul Verlaine (1844), François Villon (1431), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), and Petronius (27). After him are Annie Ernaux (1940), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Nicolas Flamel (1330), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), André Breton (1896), and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894).

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