Phedre
A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.In this tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of h…
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Weitere Autoren: Hughes, Ted (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-52616-0
- EAN: 9780374526160
- Produktnummer: 9402682
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D0.8 cm 113 g
- Auflage: AMERICAN
- Gewicht: 113
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Jean Racine; Translated by Ted Hughes
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