Phèdre
A great book. First published AD 1677, written in French
Phèdre is a French 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.
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Where it is set
- Troezen
Greece
The play is set at the royal court in Troezen, on the Peloponnesus coast in Southern Greece. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
What it draws on
HippolytusClassic
Euripides, 427 BC
Racine retells Euripides' tragedy of a queen who falls in love with her stepson, but moves its centre: in Phèdre it is Phaedra, not Hippolytus, who carries the play, torn between passion and shame.
Source: Wikidata
Wikidata lists Phèdre as a derivative work of Hippolytus. Read it there
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