Finished this for class! This edition has some nice illustrations, so I thought I'd share one with y'all. Overall, it was an entertaining play. And when I say entertaining, I mean it was like watching a train wreck. After reading Oedipus Rex, it wasn't as shocking as it could have been though. Gorgeous turns of phrases and rhymes. #jeanracine #frenchlit #tragedy #theatre #plays #classics
"This longing for death is going to kill us both.
I exhaust myself to keep you alive
When all you are doing is trying to die."
I feel guilty that I'm reading a tragedy and I find it somewhat funny. For example, the line above is rather comedic.
Do you think I'm mad enough
To take this girl's part against my father ?
Defy such a man as my father?
Make my name
A synonym for -- imbecility?
The Rubáiyat, Horace's odes and epodes, Racine's Phèdre, 16th and 17th c. Norton English Lit=five amazing dollars spent at Poets House. Here they are by the stream w my hair getting in the way
Phedre | 
