Phaedra in Literature
Phaedra's story appears in several major works of literature, including:
- Euripides, Hippolytus, a Greek play
- Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, a Latin play
- Francesco Bozza, Fedra (1578), an Italian play
- Jean Racine, Phèdre (1677), a French play.
- Miguel de Unamuno, Fedra (1911), a Spanish play
- Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms (1924), an American play
- Marina Tsvetaeva, Fédra (1924), a Russian play
- Robinson Jeffers, Cawdor (1928), an English long poem
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Phaedra, an English lyrical drama
- Salvador Espriu, Fedra (1938), a Catalan play
- Marguerite Yourcenar, "Phaedra" a short story from Fires (1957)
- Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea (1962), an English novel
- Frank D. Gilroy, That Summer, That Fall (1967), retelling of Phaedra and Hippolytus
- Tony Harrison, Phaedra Britannica (1975), an English verse play
- Per Olov Enquist, Till Fedra (1980), a Swedish play
- Matthew Maguire, Phaedra (1995), an English play
- Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love (1996), Gate Theatre London
- Susan Yankowitz, Phaedra in Delirium (1998)
- Charles L. Mee, True Love (2001), modernized adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus and Racine's Phèdre.
- Frank McGuinness, Phaedra (Donmar Warehouse, 2006)
- Karol Horák, House of plasticene (2007), a Slovakian play
- Phaedra is a loose archetype for a fictional namesake, Phèdre nó Delaunay in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy novels.
- Building 25, Anyone Can Edit... Phaedra (Brisbane Festival, 2011)
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