Jose Sospedra Canovas

 

 

PHAEDRA’S LOVE

 

Author: Sarah Kane

Title: Phaedra’s love

Subtitle: A play with 8 scenes

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Some information

 

Phaedra’s love is a play of Sarah Kane. The play was showed for the first time in ate Theatre London in 15^th May 1996. it was direct by Sarah Kane.

 

Dramatis personae and plot

Phaedra is the mother of Strophe. She is a sweety character. The daughter is always defending her mother and she acts with whichever attack against her mother.

Other character is Theseus who is the Phaedra’s husband. He has a son called Hippolytus, who is the stepson of Phaedra and the stepbrother of Strophe. Theseus reigns his territory, and with the union of his wife, makes her to reign too. Hippolyytus in spite of his physical and psiquics complexes keeps his sex relations in a good level.

 

Plot

It is the story of the feelings which are inside of a family

Phaedra admits to her daughter Strophe that she is in love of her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra tells him that she loves him but he refuses her. Strophe gets furious and hates her stepborther, overcoat when he says to her that he has told her mother what she has done with her stepfather. Then, Phaedra kills herself and write in a note that  Hippolytus had violated her and killed. Hippolytus is killed and Theseus cuts the throat of his stepdaughter and he says he never liked her. Afterthat the father kills himself.

 

 

Space

The play happens in its mojority in the palace, but there are also scene in the prision, in the street, etc. So, the spaces are opened and closed.

 

 

Time

The time of the play is the present: the play is divided in eight scenes. We don’t know how long the play is, because it is not specificated.

This play has a correct temporal coherence, there are no temporal breaks.

 

 

Literary and stylistic solutions

The play is written in prose.The language used in this play is a standar, colloquial language, with abundance in vulgarism like shit, fuck, idiot, wich are repeated many times in the play. There are also abundance of short sentences.

 

 

Personal opinion

I like this play, it is very easy to understand, so it’s pleasant to read it. I think that this play is a litle bit hard, for example, when the priest makes oral sex with Hippolytus.

The play collects lots of aspects which gets to make it an interesting play, for example the bold treatment of the characters, who are well treated and they are verosimils.

Or the where the play is placed, apparently is in a old casstle, but the plays is placed in the present