category: phaedra greek mythology

As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Oueen'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 ...

Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-99) has long been considered one of the greatest glories of the French theatre.

PHAEDRA Ah! Let them take elsewhere the worthless honours They bring me.