The narrator of Proust's In Search of Lost Time befriends Berma, an actress specializing in this man's plays.
The narrator of Proust's In Search of Lost Time befriends Berma, an actress specializing in this man's plays. In one of this man's plays, a woman confides to Phenice of her love for her "all-powerful" fiance, who cannot marry her because "Rome took a hatred to the name of King." In this man's only comedy, Leander and Isabelle trick Chicaneau and the insane Judge Dandin into allowing their marriage. This author of Les Plaideurs (lay-play-DUR) and Bajazet wrote about Xiphares (zi-FARE-ees) and Monime (mo-NEE-may) inheriting the kingdom of (*) Mithridates (MITH-ruh-DAY-teez) in another work. He wrote about Orestes' (aw-REST-eez) and Pyrrhus' competition for Hermione (her-MY-oh-nee), as well as a woman's rejection of Antiochus (an-TIE-oh-kus) and Titus (TIE-tuss). In his most famous play, Aricia (uh-REE-see-uh) is loved by Hippolytus (hip-PAUL-i-tus), the stepson and love interest of the insane title character, Theseus' wife. For 10 points, name this seventeenth-century French tragedian of Berenice, Andromaque, and Phedre.
The narrator of Proust's In Search of Lost Time befriends Berma, an actress specializing in this man's plays.
Jean-Baptiste Racine