by Jean Racine · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080708595
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«Phèdre» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Flammarion in paperback (96 pages, in French).
Phaedra is torn between a passion that shames her and moral duty; in a harrowing monologue she confesses her love to an interlocutor who rejects her, while blaming the gods for kindling a fatal fire in her. Racine's verse portrays the torment of a conscience that can neither surrender nor give up.
The play was originally published in 1677; the volume belongs to the GF collection (no. 859) and the edition is edited by Jacques Morel.
The work is aimed at students of French literature and readers of seventeenth-century classical theatre; it is commonly used as school and university reading.
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.
