For 10 points, name this play in which the title character is the mother-in-law of but stricken with lust for Hippolyte; a work of Jean Racine about a Cretan princess.
In the preface to this work, the author claims that the title character is "neither completely guilty nor completely innocent... but involved, by destiny and by the anger of the gods" in the plot, though his summation of the work claims "There is no salvation for those afflicted by passion." Blinded by jealousy for Aricie, the title character much too late renounces the advice of a character later called a snake, her nurse Oenone. Set in Troezen, this work climaxes with one character invoking a curse granted by Poseidon due to a false accusation of rape; thus Thésée kills his own son. For 10 points, name this play in which the title character is the mother-in-law of but stricken with lust for Hippolyte; a work of Jean Racine about a Cretan princess.
In the preface to this work, the author claims that the title character is "neither completely guilty nor completely innocent... but involved, by destiny and by the anger of the gods" in the plot, though his summation of the work claims "There is no salvation for those afflicted by passion."
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