Phaedra

Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed. When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her. In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human-scale characters and actions. Introduction by Richard Wilbur.

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• Old Man Goriot (The Human Comedy)
• Three Tales (Penguin Classics)
• The School for Wives and The Learned Ladies, by Moliere: Two comedies in an acclaimed translation.
• Exile and the Kingdom
• Pierre and Jean (Penguin Classics)
• Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
• Crossing the Mangrove
• The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
• Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were