Phèdre

Jean Racine · 1677 CE · Play · French · Enlightenment

Believing her husband Theseus dead, Phèdre confesses the desire for her stepson Hippolytus that she has been starving herself to suppress. He loves someone else, and Theseus is not dead. Fate's machinery run on shame.

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Lineage

• shares sources with ↑ The Bacchae
  Euripides · 405 BCE · Play
• alludes to ↑ Theseus and the Minotaur
  Greek myth · c. 600 BCE · Myth / Legend
• adapts ↑ Hippolytus
  Euripides · 428 BCE · Play
• influenced by ↑ Phaedra
  Seneca · c. 50 CE · Play

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Phaedra
  Seneca · c. 50 CE · Play

  64% · 13 shared
  PlayTragedyForbidden LoveGuilt & ConscienceFreedom vs FateFallen WomanInnocentTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)A Belovedvs Selfvs Fate / GodsTragic
• Pierre
  Herman Melville · 1852 CE · Novel

  51% · 9 shared
  TragedyForbidden LoveGuilt & ConscienceMadnessInnocentTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)vs SelfTragic
• Dangerous Liaisons
  Choderlos de Laclos · 1782 CE · Novel

  49% · 11 shared
  TragedyForbidden LoveEnlightenmentFemme FataleInnocentTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)A Belovedvs SelfTragicFrench
• The Courier for Hell
  Chikamatsu Monzaemon · 1711 CE · Play

  49% · 11 shared
  PlayTragedyForbidden LoveGuilt & ConscienceEnlightenmentFallen WomanTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)A Belovedvs SelfTragic
• Hippolytus
  Euripides · 428 BCE · Play

  46% · 9 shared
  PlayTragedyForbidden LoveGuilt & ConscienceFreedom vs FateTragic Reversalvs Selfvs Fate / GodsTragic
• Iphigenia
  Jean Racine · 1674 CE · Play

  44% · 11 shared
  PlayTragedyFreedom vs FateEnlightenmentInnocentTragic ReversalThe Seavs Selfvs Fate / GodsTragicFrench