Phaedra and Other Plays by Jean Racine
Phaedra and Other Plays

Jean Racine

Phaedra and Other Plays

Jean Racine with John Cairncross (Translator)

317 pages first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction classics play dark reflective slow-paced
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Phaedra, which Voltaire called ‘the masterpiece of the human mind’, is the greatest of the plays of Jean Racine (1639-99). In this sombre tragedy of the guilty passion of Theseus’s queen for her stepson, Hippolytus, Racine again chose a pagan plot...

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