| Considered one of the greatest French dramatists of classical tragedy, poet and writer Jean Baptiste Racine adapted heroic characters and tragic themes in his works from ancient Greek and Roman literature, and updated them to 17th-century France. His most successful plays include Phèdre (1677), one of the seven tragedies deemed his masterpieces. In Phèdre, the heroine, modeled after the heroines of antiquity, suffers from degradation as a victim of incestuous passion. The work creates a disturbing picture of a world in which the gods are immoral and evil. |
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