He adapted Aristophanes' The Wasps into a three-act comedy that he entitled The Litigants.  His last two works were a pair of Biblical plays for the girls of Saint-Cyr, Esther and Athalie.  He had been convinced to write them by his patron Madame de Maintenon [MON-te-noh] sh
He adapted Aristophanes' The Wasps into a three-act comedy that he entitled The Litigants.  His last two works were a pair of Biblical plays for the girls of Saint-Cyr, Esther and Athalie.  He had been convinced to write them by his patron Madame de Maintenon [MON-te-noh] shortly after his appointment as official historiographer by Louis XIV.  Before gaining that position, this Jansenist had quit the theater in disgust over failure despite the early success of plays like The Thebiad, Andromaque, and Berenice.  FTP, name this arch-rival of Pierre Corneille, whose masterpiece is his play Phedre [FAY-drah].
He adapted Aristophanes' The Wasps into a three-act comedy that he entitled The Litigants.  
Jean Baptiste Racine