Phèdre

Phedre has put into the mouth of AEsop an explanation of that love which would certainly not have been relished by the Greeks.

I admired her more in Phedre than in any other part in which I saw her.

Racine imagined that he was doomed to another failure like that of Phedre, which he preferred before all his other pieces.

Boileau one day made up his mind to take him a copy of Phedre, pondering on the way as to what he should say to him.