Phaedra's Love
by Sarah Kane
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First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by Theseus. Kane's achievement is to have humanised the antics of the pounding royals. Her sulphurous dialgoue is full of reeking toughness' Evening Standard 'Sarah show more Kane's writing is both daring and accomplished' Time Out 'Pure theatre or rather impure theatre: dirty, alarming, dangerous' Observer 'delivered with punch and laced with black humour' Financial Times show lessTags
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This is the play Kane referred to as her comedy. Great piece of work but I'm pretty certain she was being facetious when she said that.
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- Canonical title
- Phaedra's Love
- Original publication date
- 15/05/1996
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
