Phaedra's Love

Phaedra's Love
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Publisher : Methuen Drama
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ISBN-10 : 0413771121
ISBN-13 : 9780413771124
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Book Synopsis Phaedra's Love by : Sarah Kane

Download or read book Phaedra's Love written by Sarah Kane and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Times


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