Racine, XVIIIth century English political figures

I finished reading the last six plays of Jean Racine, including his most famous, Phedre. I was really looking forward to it, and the language was indeed very beautiful, euphonious even. I also read a biography of Queen Anne, a sad affair with her bad health and unfortunate life, a biography of the Earl of Oxford who was a politician, and a biography of the radical Duke of Lennox. I also read a biography of Michel Foucault, and decided to read all his work. On my bookshelf now is a second biography of Mazarin, a bit more informative but still irritatingly lacking in insight, a biography of Jacques Derrida, and a couple of essays on media and politics, on the one hand, and lying on the other.