Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 36, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Bajazet is Racine’s most violent drama; it ends, like Phèdre, with a female character’s on-stage suicide, here the culmination of a vividly described sequence of off-stage murders. The setting, in a claustrophobic space within the harem...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

playtext

Acts: 5, Scenes: 29, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...The critical event in Berenice, the death of Titus’ father, the Emperor Vespasian, happens a week before the play opens. Thereafter Titus knows that his separation from Berenice is inevitable. The breaking off of a great love affair...

Nick Hern Books, 2001

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Jean Racine's Phedra (originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a five-act tragedy written in alexandrine verse, first performed on 1 January 1677 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, home of the royal troupe of actors in Paris...