Phèdre
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Phèdre (; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
Key facts
- Play.name
- Phèdre
- Play.image
- Racine - Phèdre Act5 sc6 1677 - césar.jpg
- Play.caption
- Title page from the first edition of
- Play.writer
- Jean Racine
- Play.characters
- PhèdreŒnoneHippolyteThéramèneThéséeAricie
- Play.setting
- The royal palace at Trézène
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Composition and premiere
- Characters
- Synopsis
- Phèdre's ancestry and its curse
- Reception
- Adaptations
- Stage
- Novels
- Translations
- Musical settings
- Selected editions
- Notes
- External links
Phèdre (; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
==Composition and premiere== With Phèdre, Racine chose once more a subject from Greek mythology, already treated by Greek and Roman tragic poets, notably by Euripides in Hippolytus and Seneca in Phaedra.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phèdre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.