This author included the nobly-born servants Cleone and Cephisa in another play.
In a play by this author, the young boy Joas is hidden in a temple to escape the murder of his siblings by the title queen so that he may survive to become king of the Jews. This author included the nobly-born servants Cleone and Cephisa in another play. This author of Athalie used a meter with a caesura in the middle of each line to write a monologue relating how a prince's horses were frightened by a bull-dragon which arose from the sea off-stage. He used that alexandrine verse to adapt a plot in which Helen's daughter Hermione loves Pyrrhus, and another plot also derived from Euripides in which Aricie is treated like a daughter after Hippolytus is accused of raping his stepmother. For 10 points, name this 17th-century French playwright of Andromache and PhÃ¨dre.
In a play by this author, the young boy Joas is hidden in a temple to escape the murder of his siblings by the title queen so that he may survive to become king of the Jews.
Jean Racine