In the third section of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel becomes enthralled with the Duchesse de Guermantes while going to see a work by this author. In one of this author's plays, the title king dies after allowing his son Xiphares to marry Monime. In another, Joad brings about the death of the title daughter of Ahab and Jezebel after she attempts to kill Joas. In addition to Mithridate and Athalie, this playwright's title characters include a woman who tries to save her 
In the third section of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel becomes enthralled with the Duchesse de Guermantes while going to see a work by this author. In one of this author's plays, the title king dies after allowing his son Xiphares to marry Monime. In another, Joad brings about the death of the title daughter of Ahab and Jezebel after she attempts to kill Joas. In addition to Mithridate and Athalie, this playwright's title characters include a woman who tries to save her son Astyanax by marrying Pyrrhus and a queen who poisons herself after a sea monster kills her stepson Hippolytus. FTP, identify this 17th-century French tragedian of Andromaque and Ph?re.
In the third section of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel becomes enthralled with the Duchesse de Guermantes while going to see a work by this author.
Jean Racine