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Bajazet, tragedy in five acts by Jean Racine, performed in 1672 and published the same year. The play, considered one of Racine’s noble tragedies, was based on an actual incident that occurred in the Ottoman Empire in the 1630s. The drama opens with the grand vizier Acomat worried about his position at the court and planning to use Bajazet in a plot to supplant Bajazet’s brother Sultan Amurath (based on Murad IV). The plot also involves Amurath’s favourite mistress, Roxane, and (inadvertently) Bajazet’s love, Atalide. In the end Bajazet and Roxane are killed by order of Amurath. Atalide kills herself ...(100 of 109 words)

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