SOURCE: Critchley, Simon. “I Want to Die, I Hate My Life—Phaedra's Malaise.”1New Literary History 34 (2003): 17-40.
In the following essay, Critchley discusses the title character of Phèdre, considers the nature of her melancholy, and characterizes the play as an antipolitical Christian tragedy.
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