by Racine Jean · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081303126
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«Phèdre» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by French and European Publications Inc in paperback (202 pages, in French).
Phaedra, wife of King Theseus, is consumed by a forbidden passion that clashes with her duty and conscience. The tension between desire and reason moves to the court, where family bonds break and fate becomes inescapable. Racine recreates the Greek myth in a tragedy about guilt and fatality.
This edition was published on May 2, 2016 and belongs to the Étonnants Classiques collection; the cover announces complete text, history of the arts and a photographic notebook.
Intended for students of French and for those approaching classical French theatre in its original language.
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.
