Book · 1691 · Fiction
Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah
Penguin (Penguin Random House) · 317 pages
★ 7.2 editorial score
Phaedra confesses she wants her stepson, a father is ordered to sacrifice his daughter for a favorable wind, and a hidden boy threatens a usurping queen. Racine packs this into polite rhymed couplets.
