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Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah (Oxford World's Classics)
Britannicus Phaedra Athaliah - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Jean Racine
Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra's doomed love for her stepson Hippolytus. Athaliah (1691),...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199555994
ISBN-10: 0199555990
Publication Date: 7/26/2009
Pages: 240
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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