by Jean Racine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010172205
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«Phèdre» is the five-act tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Hachette in paperback (191 pages, in French).
Set in ancient Greece, the play follows Phaedra, wife of Theseus, consumed by a forbidden passion for her stepson Hippolytus. With the king missing and presumed dead, her confession of feelings and Theseus's unexpected return trigger a palace intrigue that leads to a tragic outcome.
French edition with complete text, in the Classiques Hachette collection (no. 5). The work was originally published in 1677.
For secondary school students studying classical French theatre and for readers who want to read Racine in his 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.
