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Phèdre: A Play by Jean Baptiste Racine, Ted Hughes (Translator) Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-374-52616-8 / 0374526168 ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52616-0 / 9780374526160 A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love f |