1) Racine tragedy
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1) French play 2) Play by Jean Racine
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==Composition and premiere== With Phèdre, Racine chose once more a subject from Greek mythology, already treated by Greek and Roman tragic poets, notably by Euripides in Hippolytus and Seneca in Phaedra. In the absence of her royal husband Thésée, Phèdre ends by declaring her love to Hippolyte, Thésée`s son from a previous marriage. As a re....
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[opera] Phèdre (Phaedra) is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at Fontainebleau on 26 October 1786. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by François-Benoît Hoffman, is based on the Greek myth of the obsessive love of Phaedra for her stepson Hippolytus. ==Roles== ==Sourc...
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(from the article `Racine, Jean`) ...Rome in Mithridate (1673) before returning to Greek mythology in Iphigénie en Aulide (1674; Iphigenia in Aulis) and the play that was his crowning ... ...had a remarkable success there in the title role of Voltaire`s Zaïre (1874), and she was soon given the chance to play the title role i...
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Tragedy by Jean
Racine 1677. Adapted from the tragedy Hippolytus by Euripides, the play dramatizes the passion of Phaedra, wife of Theseus, king of Athens, for her stepson, Hippolytus, who is in...
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