Principal Works
La Nymphe de la Seine à la Reyne [The Nymph of the Seine to the Queen] (poetry) 1660
Ode sur la convalescence du Roi [Ode upon the King's Recovery] (poetry) 1663
La Renommée aux Muses [Fame to the Muses] (poetry) 1663
La Thébaïde; ou, Les Freres ennemis [The Thebans; or The Enemy Brothers] (play) 1664
Alexandre le Grande [Alexander the Great] (play) 1665
Andromaque [Andromache] (play) 1667
Les Plaideurs [The Litigants] [adaptor; from the play The Wasps by Aristophanes] (play) 1668
Britannicus (play) 1669
Bérénice (play) 1670
Bajazet (play) 1672
Mithridate (play) 1673
Iphigénie (play) 1674
Phèdre [Phaedra] (play) 1677
L'Idylle de la paix [Idyll on Peace] [librettist; music by Jean-Baptiste Lully] (opera) 1685
Esther (play) 1689
Athalie (play) 1691
Cantiques spirituels (hymns) 1694
Campagne de Louis XIV [with Nicolas Boileau] (history) 1730; published as Eloge historique du Roi, Louis XIV [Historical Eulogy of King Louis XIV], 1784
Abrege de l'histoire de Port-Royal (history) 1742
Oeuvres. 3 vols. (plays, poetry) 1760
Oeuvres. 7 vols. (plays, poetry) 1796
Theatre complet et oeuvres diverses en vers de J. Racine. 4 vols. (plays, poetry) 1811
Theatre complet de J. Racine (plays) 1841
Lettres inedites de Jean Racine et de Louis Racine (letters) 1862
Lettres a son fils, suivies de Lettres de Jean Baptiste Racine a Louis Racine (letters) 1922
Port-Royal, lettres a l'auteur des imaginaires; abrege de l'histoire de Port-Royal (letters) 1933
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