Phaedra's Love

by Sarah Kane

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413771121
• ISBN13: 9780413771124
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"