17th CenturyPoets and Playwrights

Racine: Berenice and Phaedra

French tragedy at its strictest: one day, one place, and passions that duty can't master.

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Volume
31 of the 1990 set
Author
Jean Racine (1639–1699)
Work
Berenice and Phaedra 1670, 1677

Ideas: Tragedy and suffering Duty and conscience Virtue and character

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A note for parents: Phaedra's story concerns a forbidden love; the lesson treats it as the play does, without detail.

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