# Phèdre

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- Book: [Phèdre](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-racine/phedre) ([Phèdre.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-racine/phedre.md))
- Authors: [Jean Racine](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-racine), [Margaret Rawlings](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-rawlings)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-591-6
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1992-03-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Racine’s play Phèdre—which draws on Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus—is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains...