This master of alexandrine verse described an illicit love affair between Aricie and Hippolyte (ar-ee-SEE and ip-oh-LEET) in a play in which the title character tells Theseus of her incestuous feelings.
This author wrote a play in an unconventional three-act form in which Hydaspes and Asaph ("high"-DASS-peez and AY-saf) are of cers of King Ahasuerus (ah-hah-soo-AIR-us), who is convinced by the title character to stop a plotted massacre of Jews. That play by this man, Esther, includes extensive musical choruses, which he also used in a biblical drama in which a queen who worships Baal is killed when the high priest Joad (JOH-ad) brings Joash (JOH-ash) to power. In another play by this author, Hermione (AIR-mee-"own") vows to kill herself a er Pyrrhus (PEER-us) dies, which results in Orestes going insane. This master of alexandrine verse described an illicit love affair between Aricie and Hippolyte (ar-ee-SEE and ip-oh-LEET) in a play in which the title character tells Theseus of her incestuous feelings. For 10 points, what French playwright wrote the tragedies Athalie, Andromaque, and Phedre (ah-tah-LEE, ahn-droh-MAHK, and FAY-druh)?
This author wrote a play in an unconventional three-act form in which Hydaspes and Asaph ("high"-DASS-peez and AY-saf) are of cers of King Ahasuerus (ah-hah-soo-AIR-us), who is convinced by the title character to stop a plotted massacre of Jews.
Jean-Baptiste Racine