What is the meaning of Bajazet?

Question

From Moliere

Answer 1

Okay. First of all, "Bajazet" is by Racine, not Moliere.

Beyazid (Bajazet in the play) was an Ottoman prince and the brother of Sultan Murad IV (Amurat in the play). In 1635, Murad had Beyazid killed because he considered him to be a dangerous rival.

"In the play, the main characters—the young prince Bajazet, his beloved Atalide, and the jealous sultana Roxane—are the mortal victims of the despotic cruelty of the absent sultan Amurat, whose reign is maintained by violence and secrecy."

Answer 2

Bajazet is the title of a 1672 play by Jean Racine

or

Beyazid, also spelt Bayezid, Bajazet, Beyazit, or Bayazit, was the name of two sultans of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey.