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    He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable)...
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    Esther is a play in three acts written in 1689 by the French dramatist, Jean Racine. It was premièred on January 26, 1689, performed by the pupils of...
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    Historia Esther, H.396, for soloist, chorus, strings and continuo, 1677 George Frideric Handel, Esther, with a libretto based on a play by Jean Racine, 1718...
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    Athalie (redirect from Athalie (Racine))
    the play to be superior to those of Aristotle. After the success of Esther, Racine published Athalie in 1691, another play drawn from the Bible, which...
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    The Book of Esther (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, romanized: Megillat Ester; Greek: Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the...
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  • Islands Esther Island (Alaska), an island Book of Esther, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible Esther (play), a play by Jean Racine (1689) Esther (novel)...
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    Testament drama by Jean Racine. The work was originally composed in 1718, but was heavily revised into a full oratorio in 1732. Esther began in 1718 as a masque...
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    Phèdre (redirect from Phaedra (Racine))
    alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. With Phèdre, Racine chose once more a subject...
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  • Les Archives du Spectacle (in French). 1905-02-07. Retrieved 2024-01-02. "Esther". Les Archives du Spectacle (in French). 1905-04-08. Retrieved 2024-01-02...
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    Monime in Mithridate by Racine Roxane in Bajazet by Racine (23 November) 1839: Esther in Esther by Racine (29 February) Laodice in Nicomède by Corneille (9...
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  • Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr. (category Businesspeople from Racine, Wisconsin)
    former (Esther) Jane Tilton, the widow of William Clyde Roach of Indianapolis, Indiana. Jane died from an embolism on 30 May 1938 in Racine. In 1941...
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    sources for inspiration. The play Esther, produced by Jean Racine in 1689, offers a more chaste version of Esther's seduction, while describing the artifice...
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    Ellen Corby (category People from Racine, Wisconsin)
    performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948). Ellen Hansen was born in Racine, Wisconsin, to immigrant parents from Denmark. She grew up in Philadelphia...
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    production of Esther, Madame de Maintenon thought of cancelling all plays at Saint-Cyr, but the King demanded that they put on Racine's new play, Athalie...
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    1731, a performance of the 1718 version of Esther, a work in English based on a Biblical drama by Jean Racine, was given in London without Handel's participation...
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  • Falcinelli 1920 1996 French Dorothea Anne Franchi 1920 2003 New Zealander Peter Racine Fricker 1920 1990 English Jacob Gilboa 1920 2007 Israeli Karen Khachaturian...
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  • Esther Ann Hershey [Reeser] (January 5, 1928 – January 14, 2014) was an American outfielder who played briefly for the Springfield Sallies of the All-American...
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  • introduction to his Amphitryon. Racine introduced Piety as the speaker of a prologue which opened his choral tragedy of Esther. The tradition of the ancients...
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  • printed. For example, in the case of the Catalan translation of Racine's tragedy Esther (1792). He also collected Catalan translations of French plays...
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  • an extract from Iphigenie by Racine. This provokes too much passion among the actors and so Madame de Maintenon asks Racine to write her a play for her...
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  • of the Me'assefim. Among other works, Haltern wrote Esther, a Hebrew adaptation of Jean Racine's drama of the same name, and published a translation of...
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  • Mollie Olgin (2012) Murder of Shao Tong (2014) Murder of Romona Moore (2015) Racine County Jane Doe (1999) Recy Taylor (2017) Death of Sania Khan (2022) "700...
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    York Times said she gave her character "the tragic, piercing dignity of a Racine heroine". At the 48th César Awards, she was nominated for the César Award...
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    of his literary potential. At the age of 17 he translated Esther, a tragedy by Jean Racine. While aged 17, in 1852, he left home to live in London with...
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    Newspapers.com. Beecher, Elizabeth. Van Johnson: The Luckiest Guy in the World. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1947. Davis, Ronald. Van Johnson: MGM's...
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    Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 505. Britannicus de Jean Racine : Analysis, Plot overview (in French) Britannicus de Jean Racine in a new translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker...
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  • This is a complete list of original characters performed by Tracey Ullman in Tracey Ullman's State of the Union. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S...
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    time to Margaret A. Flett (d. 1968), the daughter of David H. Flett of Racine, Wisconsin. Together, they were the parents of one child: David Flett du...
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    Year Title Author Director 1987 Esther Jean Racine Françoise Seigner 1988-89 Le Cid Pierre Corneille Gérard Desarthe 1990 How You Love Me Luigi Pirandello...
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    23 August 2020. "Cameroun: le footballeur Kylian Mbappé renoue avec ses racines à Djébalè" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 8 July 2023. Archived...
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