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317 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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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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317 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings