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Phaeton; or The Fatal Divorce (1698)

APGRD id
1072
Start date
March 1698
Production Media
Stage-play
Languages
English
APGRD Notes
"Gildon's drama fuses the story of Phaeton, the son of the Sun, with the plot of Euripides' Medea and some features from Iphigenia in Tauris and the Senecan Medea" (Hall in Medea in Performance, p.51). Macintosh states that Gildon was also inspired by Philippe Quinault's Phaéton (2001, p.284).
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/1072
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