Jean Racine (16391699). Phædra. The Harvard Classics. 190914. |
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- THESEUS, son of Ægeus and King of Athens.
- PHÆDRA, wife of Theseus and Daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë.
- HIPPOLYTUS, son of Theseus and Antiope, Queen of the Amazons.
- ARICIA, Princess of the Blood Royal of Athens.
- NONE, nurse of Phædra.
- THERAMENES, tutor of Hippolytus.
- ISMENE, bosom friend of Aricia.
- PANOPE, waiting-woman of Phædra.
- GUARDS
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- The scene is laid at Trzen, a town of the Peloponnesus.
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