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Phaedra
Phaedra
Author: Jean Baptiste Racine, Richard Wilbur (Translator)
Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed. When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her. In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human-scale characters and actions. Int...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780525470991
ISBN-10: 0525470999
Publication Date: 4/23/1962
Pages: 180
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Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
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