Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Racine, Ted Hughes (Translator)Publish date:2000-02-28Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374526160ISBN-10:374526168UPC:9780374526160Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC5CB5RKGJ
Phedre
A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.
The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic...Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374526160ISBN-10:374526168UPC:9780374526160Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC5CB5RKGJ
Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote more than forty books of poetry, prose, and translation, including his version of the Oresteia of Aeschylus and the Alcestis of Euripides. He served as Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, and in the year before his death he was awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize (for Tales from Ovid) and the Forward Prize (for Birthday Letters), and received an Order of Merit.
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