Introduction Phaedra, a tragic play created and popularized by Jean B. Racine is an account of the possible pros, cons, and eminent ills or frailty experienced by love-stricken people depicting their own strength and weaknesses. The play implicitly showed different types of love that are prevalent...
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The Diagnoses of Phaedra in the Play Hippolytus Theatre History 111: Dr. Jennifer Wise Student: Jessica November 14, 2005 The intimate play Hippolytus by Euripides is a story of love, lust and loathing, where one woman's feelings for a man lead to her self-destruction. Phaedra is the wife of...
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Athens, Patriarchal Societies, and Phaedra and Clytaemnestra Upon first examination, it would seem that the two female characters of Greek drama Phaedra and Clytaemnestra are far removed from one another. Phaedra is seemingly a love-struck character that embodies pathos and a pathetic nature while...
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Phaedra and enlightenment values The Enlightenment period was began shortly after the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and lasted through the 18th century. This was an “intellectual movement” and the writers of this period disapproved of religion and politics ruled by absolutism. “ The movement would...
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Phaedra, originally part of the large body of Greek mythological works, has been adapted, modified and presented in new contexts in recent centuries. For example, following the original conception of this tragedy by Euripides, versions of it have appeared in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, etc...
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Playwright The play Phaedra’s Love, by Sarah Kane, takes the classic Greek tragedy, Phaedra, and retells it in a modern-day setting. The play, which features incredibly violent and visceral scenes of sex, brutality, rape, and murder, is reflective of Sarah Kane’s writing style. Kane’s plays are...
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Euripides vs. Dassin The classic Greek legend of Phaedra probes the tragic consequences that occur when a woman becomes sexually obsessed with her stepson. In Phaedra (1962) director Jules Dassin presents Phaedra as a woman overwhelmed by passions she cannot control. This follows the...
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?Class Civ Discuss the presentation of Phaedra and nurse in Hippolytus. How sympathetically does Euripides present these characters? Euripides presents the characters of Phaedra and Nurse in Hippolytus as two ends on a moral spectrum; Nurse having a pragmatic approach to the tragedy orchestrated...
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In the Ancient World, women were not portrayed as they are today in modern literary works; women usually played controversial roles where their actions ranged from killing their own family to destroying their own town. Women in ancient Greek plays and Roman stories did not posses the social...
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The Aristotelian tragic hero is defined as a "lifelike" person who demonstrates both good and bad qualities through speech and action in a consistent manner. Moreover, the tragic hero, due to a personal error in judgment or tragic flaw, is the cause of the tragedy in a play. In Jean Racine's...
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“J'ai tant désiré le jour et voici qu'il me brûle les yeux!” — — — Jean Baptiste Racine, Phaedra
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