Racine
Subtitle: Phèdre (Landmarks of World Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780521397216
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Racine, Jean,; Phaedra (Greek mythology) in literature; Continental European; Drama; Plays / Drama; French; Plays; Italy; Phedre; Drama / Continental European; Racine, Jean, --1639-1699.--Ph?edre Racine, J; Racine, Jean,--1639-1699.--Pháedre; 1639-1699.; Tragedy; 1639-1699; Phaedra (Greek mythology) in l; Pháedre
First sentence: Phedre represents the culmination of seventeenth-century French classical tragedy and can be fully understood only against the background of seventeenth-century French political, social, and literary history, of which we provide a brief sketch.