by Jean Racine · Editions Hatier - educabooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782218958922
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«Phèdre» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Hatier in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Set in Troezen in ancient Greece, the play shows Phaedra consumed by a forbidden passion for her stepson Hippolytus. Believing her husband Theseus dead, the protagonist ends up confessing her guilty love, but the young man loves another. Considered a model of French classical tragedy, it explores the irrational and destructive force of amorous passion.
First published in 1677, this school edition is number 7 in the Classiques & Cie Lycée collection and includes the complete text with a critical dossier for preparation for the baccalauréat.
For secondary school students following the French curriculum and for those seeking a classic of 17th-century theatre.
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.
