Description: Phedre : A Play, Paperback by Racine, Jean; Hughes, Ted (TRN), ISBN 0374526168, ISBN-13 9780374526160, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom. In this "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his protagonists. The translation was performed to acclaim in London in 1998, and the London production, starring Diana Rigg, was staged in 1999 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. "We are still catching up with Ted Hughes's gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid," one English critic observed after the London premiere. "Little needs to happen on stage when there's a swirling action-packed disaster movie-riddled with sex and violence-in Hughes's free verse."
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Book Title: Phedre : a Play
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: European / French, European / General
Publication Year: 2000
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 4.2 Oz
Author: Jean Racine
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
