by Jean Racine, Anne Autiquet · Hachette Éducation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782013949859
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«Phèdre» is the classic tragedy by Jean Racine and Anne Autiquet, published by Hachette Éducation in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Phaedra, young wife of Theseus, is consumed by a forbidden love for her stepson Hippolytus, who flees Troezen to rejoin his father in his quest for fabulous monsters. News of Theseus's death triggers irreversible confessions in a family punished by an ancestral curse. Racine thus shows the devastating power of passion and fate.
2018 school edition in the Bibliolycée collection: complete annotated text, five questionnaires, character analysis and a «Spécial bac» dossier with exercises for the written and oral exams.
Designed for high school students preparing for French literature, with specific material for the exam.
Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
