Phaedra (mythology) - Phaedra in Literature

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)