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Who were the other great French dramatists of the seventeenth century besides Corneille?

  • Voltaire and Hugo

  • Molière and Racine

  • Dumas and Balzac

  • Sartre and Camus

Answer

Molière and Racine were the other great French dramatists of the seventeenth century besides Corneille. Molière was a comic playwright who wrote some of the most famous plays in the French language, including Le Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and The Bourgeois Gentleman. Racine was a tragedian who wrote some of the most famous tragedies in the French language, including Andromaque, Phèdre, and Britannicus.
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