FTP, identify this French playwright of Andromaque and Phedre.
Roland Barthes' 1963 study of this writer inspired attacks by Raymond Picard, while Lucien Goldmann analyzed this author and Pascal in The Hidden God. Aristophanes' The Wasps inspired his comedy Les Plaideurs, and in another of his plays, the arrival of Antiochus prevents Titus and the title character from committing suicide. He wrote about a lover of Atalide in Bajazet, the only one of his works set in contemporary times, while Madame de Maintenon commissioned him to write two plays for St. Cyr, Esther and Athalie. In another of his plays, the daughter of Minos commits suicide after her love for Hippolytus is unrequited. FTP, identify this French playwright of Andromaque and Phedre.
Roland Barthes' 1963 study of this writer inspired attacks by Raymond Picard, while Lucien Goldmann analyzed this author and Pascal in The Hidden God.
Jean {Racine}