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Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine; C. H. Sisson (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra's doomed love f ...Show more
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics
Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. "Iphigenia" depicts a princess' absolute submission to her father's will, d ...Show more
Phaedra: A Version of Racine by Jean Racine
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Plays
An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son, which he does before discovering the truth.
Phedre by Jean Racine
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for ...Show more
Phèdra by Jean Racine
Category: Fiction
Based on Euripides' Hippolytus, this play by one of France's greatest playwrights is a magnificent example of character exposition. When the title character, Hippolytus' stepmother, receives false information that her husband, Theseus, is dead, Ph dra reveals a passionate love for her stepson -- an act ...Show more
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