Emotive, elegant expression Racine is certainly one of the most important playwrights of the last millennium. The selection of three plays in this edition demonstrate his acute ability to convey all emotion, pity and fear which made his plays so justifyably popular in the seventeenth century. Pheadre manages to convey the immense chaos created by love, when the eponymous heroise falls in love with her own stepson. Needless to say, there are few happy-ever-afters to be found in Racine's plays, but you really must read them in order to... more info
