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 | Phedre: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) (French Edition) (Reprint Edition) by Jean Baptiste Racine, Margaret Rawlings (Translator) Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-14-044591-9 / 0140445919 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044591-6 / 9780140445916 The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus's love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has | |