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Phaedra's Love (Methuen Modern Drama) (Modern Plays) Book

First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by Theseus.Kane's achievement is to have humanised the antics of the pounding royals. Her sulphurous dialgoue is full of reeking toughness' Evening Standard 'Sarah Kane's writing is both daring and accomplished' Time Out 'Pure theatre or rather impure theatre: dirty, alarming, dangerous' Observer 'delivered with punch and laced with black humour' Financial TimesRead More

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    Hippolytus the spoiled prince is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions particularly love and need of any type are an unbearable threat to the prince. Phaedra his stepmother is in love with him. The impossibility of the situation leads to their bloody destruction.

  • Blackwell

    A reworking of classical myth, this harrowing play is a brutal exposure of love at its most impure and dangerous. First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical...

  • 0413771121
  • 9780413771124
  • Sarah Kane
  • 24 January 2002
  • Methuen Drama
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 41
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