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Phèdre is born to Liliane de Souverain, a Servant of Naamah, and Pierre Cantrel, a merchant's spend-thrift son.
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He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
* January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed.
* Phaedra is a loose archetype for a fictional namesake, Phèdre nó Delaunay in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy novels.
Another one of Carey's protagonists, Phèdre is a virtuous and strong young woman who happens to be a masochistic courtesan.
Phèdre ( originally Phèdre et Hippolyte ) is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.
Their discourse is interrupted by Phèdre, who distraughtly pleads for the rights of her infant son, explaining her coldness and personal despair.
After his long period in captivity, Theseus is surprised by his cold reception from his wife and son, each anxious to conceal their passions: Phèdre, consumed by guilt ; and Hippolytus, anxious to distance himself from his stepmother's advances, but unable to tell his father of his love for Aricia.
Fearing that she might be guilty for Hippolytus ' death, Phèdre determines to reveal the truth to her husband, until she is told of Hippolytus ' love for Aricia.
Phèdre is right to fear judgment ; she is driven to an incestual love for her stepson Hippolytus, much like the other women in her family, who tended to experience desires generally considered taboo.
The character of Phèdre is one of the most remarkable in Racine's tragic oeuvre.
Although Phèdre is perhaps less often studied at high school level in France than Britannicus or Andromaque, it is still frequently performed, and the eponymous role has been played by actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Isabelle Huppert.
A tradition saying that he spared their sister, Aricia, whom he kept as slave, is followed in Jean Racine's Phèdre but is not supported by extant genuinely ancient sources.
Today it is one of Racine's more popular plays, after Phèdre, Andromaque and Britannicus.
" Risk ", Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal's Pensées and Jean Racine's Phèdre, " is possibility of failure, hope of success, and the synthesis of the three in a faith which is a wager are the essential constituent elements of the human condition ".
Due to poverty and Pierre Cantrel's unwillingness for his wife to continue in the Service of Naamah, Phèdre is sold to Cereus House of the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers.
Phèdre grows up in Cereus House but is somewhat outcast, given her flaw that keeps her outside the canons of the Night Court.
At age thirteen, Phèdre first meets Melisande Shahrizai, who is one of the few people to identify her as an anguissette at first glance.
Phèdre accidentally reveals to Melisande that Delaunay is waiting for word from Quintilius Rousse.
Joscelin accompanies her to the marquist's, but before the marque can be finished, they are interrupted by a sailor, bearing a message from Admiral Quintilius Rousse to Delaunay ; he knows that Delaunay's house is being watched, and seeks to give the message to Phèdre instead.
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This was followed by revivals of Racine's Phèdre ( 24 February ), Octave Feuillet's Dalila ( 8 March ), Gaston de Wailly's Patron Bénic ( 14 March ), Edmond Rostand's La Samaritaine ( 25 March ), and Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias on 9 April.
In 1807 he attracted much attention in France by an essay in the French language, Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d ' Euripide, in which he attacked French classicism from the standpoint of the Romantic school.
From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's Phèdre, two plays that made his reputation.
* Aveux de Phèdre for soprano and orchestra, op.
After Phèdre, Racine ceased writing plays on secular themes and devoted himself to the service of religion and the king until 1689, when he was commissioned to write Esther by Madame de Maintenon, the morganatic second wife of Louis XIV.
* Phèdre, tragédie lyrique en 3 actes, music by Lemoyne, premiere 26 October 1786 au château de Fontainebleau ;
Dying, Alcuin tells Phèdre to tell Ysandre what has happened, to trust Admiral Rousse and the remaining Trevalions, that Thelesis de Mornay knows about Alba, and that the important figure is the Dauphine, not Ganelon.
Deciding upon the best course of action to reach Ysandre, Phèdre sends a message to Thelesis de Mornay, written as a love poem in Cruithne, that it might not be understood if intercepted.
Remembering the story of Thelesis de Mornay, Phèdre pays their passage with one of the Skaldic hearth-songs taught to her by Hedwig Arnildsdottir.
At this point, Phèdre officially becomes the Comtesse de Montrève, inheriting Delaunay's mother's estate in Siovale as well.
fr: L ' Amour de Phèdre
Phèdre also learns that Prince Benedicte de la Courcel has re-married.
Upon realizing some crucial information, Phèdre decides to go and tell Prince Benedicte de la Courcel what she has learned and that there may be a plot against the Queen.
Phèdre also learns of how Melisande plans to kill Queen Ysandre: Melisande has gotten one of the Cassiline royal guards to kill Ysandre in retribution for Ysandre's mother, Isabel L ' Envers, allegedly having killed his sister, the late fiancee of Prince Rolande, Edmée de Rocaille.
The anguissette Comtesse Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève is contacted by her former lover and rival, Melisande Shahrizai, to find Melisande's son Imriel de la Courcel.
Phèdre and Servant
At fourteen, Phèdre officially dedicates herself as a Servant of Naamah.
With her chevaliers, Remy, Fortun and Ti-Phillipe ( see Phèdre's Boys ), and her lover and protector Joscelin Verreuil, the former Cassiline brother, Phèdre returns to the City of Elua, to resume her life as a Servant of Naamah in the hopes of discerning where Melisande is and what she plans.
Phèdre and Naamah
When they enter the Service of Naamah, Delaunay uses their skills as spies for his court intrigues, the nature of which Phèdre and Alcuin nó Delaunay do not always know.
Phèdre and son
In the absence of her royal husband Thésée, Phèdre ends by declaring her love to Hippolyte, Thésée's son from a previous marriage.
In Nineveh, Phèdre is refused aid from Khebbel-im-Akkad, despite Valere L ' Envers being married to the son of the Khalif, and begins to doubt that she can save Imriel.
Phèdre and Joscelin soon learn that they have grown to love Imriel as their son and that he has grown to love them like parents.
Phèdre and .
In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).
Racine's Phèdre ( 1677 ) features Theseus as well as Hippolytus and the title character.
* Phèdre nó Delaunay, the premier courtesan of Terre D ' Ange in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy novels.
* Jean Racine, Phèdre ( 1677 ), a French play.
* Charles L. Mee, True Love ( 2001 ), modernized adaptation of Euripides ' Hippolytus and Racine's Phèdre.
It broadcast productions of Racine's Phèdre, Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art and Boucicault's London Assurance.
It launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of Phèdre with Helen Mirren, which was shown in over 200 cinemas around the world and seen by a worldwide audience of more than 50, 000 people.
The second season of broadcasts launched with an encore screening of Phèdre.
File: Alexandre Cabanel Phèdre. jpg | Phaedra ( 1880 )
She was best known for her portrayal of the title rôle in Phèdre.
This rule was followed throughout Europe for centuries: usually, princes and members of the nobility, such as Andreas Gryphius ' Carolus Stuardus ( i. e. King Charles I of England ), Jean Racine's Phèdre ( the wife of Theseus, a mythical king of Athens ) or William Shakespeare's King Lear, serve as tragic protagonists.
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