Racine's Phèdre: Edited with Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Racine's Phèdre: Edited With Introduction And Notes

IN preparing this text I have had in view the needs of students sufiîciently advanced to be primarily interested in it as literature. There are in Phèdre few verbal and syntactical difiiculties that need explaining as compared with the number of mythological allusions and the like, and so I have thought best to put the notes at the bottom of the page. In writing both introduction and notes I have occasionally profited by the French school editions of Lanson, Bernardin, ]acquinet, etc. I have not attempted to give all of Racine's classical imitations, but merely the most striking. Unless otherwise stated, the verse renderings of Euripides are by Arthur S. Way (the Tragedies of Euripides in English Verse, Macmillan Co., 1894) those of Seneca are by Ella Isabel Harris (the Tragedies of Seneca, Henry F rowde.

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