description: This translation of Racine's dramatic masterpiece by the American poet William Packard, matches line for line the Alexandrine and rhyming couplets of the original French text. Rehearsal notes of Paul mile Deiber, director at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Comdie Francaise, are interwoven throughout the text.
language: English
title: Jean Racine's Phedre on Stage.
titlecomplete: Jean Racine's Phedre on Stage.
characters: Thésée, Phèdre, Ismène, Aricie, Hippolyte, Panope, Oenone, Théramène
genres: France, Fiction, Literature, Theatre, French Literature, Plays, School, Drama, 17th Century, Classics
ratings_count: 20748
publisher: Fordham University Press