PHAEDRA’S
LOVE
AUTHOR à SARAH KANE
TITTLE à PHAEDRA’S LOVE
EDITORIAL à FABER & FABER
YEAR OF PUBLICATION à 1996
PLACE OF PUBLICATION à
CHARACTERS
THESEUS
He is
the king, his wife is Phaedra.
HIPPOLYTUS
He is
the son of Theseus, he is very lazy.
PHAEDRA
She is
the wife of Theseus, she is the stepmother of Hippolytus, and she is in love
with him.
STROPHE
She is
Phaedra’s daughter.
There
are others characters like Priest (he is the doctor) and two men and two women.
SUMMARY
Phaedra
is in love with Hippolytus but he does not want anything with her because is
the wife of his father, she tell to her daughter this but her daughter tell her
that she must forget. Phaedra tries having
sex with him but he is not interested although he has sex with a lot of women
of his town because all the people love him although he is a lazy boy.
Phaedra
kills herself but before she writes a note where she puts that Hippolytus raped
her. Theseus come back and he wants to kill his son
but Phaedra defends him and Theseus does not recognise her and he kills her,
and after that he kills his son. Finally he regrets and he kills herself too.
SPACES
There
are some spaces where the scenes happen, the spaces are a bedroom, the place of
the funeral and the last it is a prison.
LANGUAGE
The
author uses a colloquial language and she uses a lot of vulgarisms.
PERSONAL
OPINION
I think
that the play has a very sad end because all the principal characters die,
Hippolytus is bad example of a bad boy because he is very lazy and does not do
useful.