PHAEDRA     

  

       By Jean Baptiste Racine     

  

       Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell     

   

   

       Contents     

  INTRODUCTORY NOTE  

  PHAEDRA  

  ACT I  

  ACT II  

  ACT III  

  ACT IV  

  ACT V  

   

    

       INTRODUCTORY NOTE     

       JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE, the younger contemporary of Corneille, and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, was born at Ferte-Milon, December 21, 1639. He was educated at the College of Beauvais, at the great Jansenist school at Port Royal, and at the College d'Harcourt. He attracted notice by an ode written for the marriage of Louis XIV in 1660, and made his first really great dramatic success with his "Andromaque."       His tragic masterpieces include 

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