About this title: The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus's love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be regarded as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, the model for dozens of works about twisted family love. Ted Hughes's "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent) replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to ...
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Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN:0140445919
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No marks on pages. Text in French, English. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Penguin Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint. Penguin Classics-Text in English and French
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN:0140445919
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 180 p. Audience: General/trade. Containing both the French and English texts plus Racine's own Preface and notes on his contemporary and classical references, this edition is a favorite among modern readers and is of special value to students, amateur companies, and repertory theaters alike. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN:0140445919
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1992-03-01
ISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN:0140445919
Description: Very Good. Paperback. Clean book with light bends in spine from reading and may have a bookstore stamp inside the cover. Quick response! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1992-03-01
ISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN:0140445919
Description: Good. Paperback. Highlighting and writing inside. Name on page edges. General paperback wear, bends in spine, possible bends from reading on the cover, and may have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group Usa
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN:0140445919
Description: New. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hip... read more
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