按语
    让巴蒂斯特拉辛，高乃依年轻的当代，以及在法国的古典悲剧至上他的对手，出生于米隆堡，1639年12月21日。他曾在博韦学院，在伟大的皇家港詹森主义学校，并在学院的科特迪瓦夏。他所吸引的路易十四在1660年结婚的颂歌书面通知，并同他的“昂朵玛格他的第一个真正伟大的巨大成功。”他的悲剧作品包括“不列颠”，“贝勒尼基”，“巴雅泽”，“米斯瑞德特”，“Iphigenie”和“Phaedre，”1669年和1677年之间写的。然后，一些年来，他放弃了戏剧性的组成，通过敌人的阴谋伤害谁试图通过上述辜负他振奋人心的一个对手，他的职业生涯反感。在1689年，他根据收回他的夫人说服工作。德曼特农夫人，并制作“以斯帖”和“亚他利雅”中最优秀的作品后，他的排名，但没有得到市民的认同后才能在1699年他去世时。此外他的悲剧，一个喜剧拉辛说，“孤星泪Plaideurs，”四个伟大美丽的赞美诗，以及皇家港的历史。
    古典悲剧，是由高乃依设立了对外公约，拉辛没有试图修改。他对希腊悲剧和自己口味的研究让他心甘情愿的严肃性和简洁的形式其中的古典理想的根本标志。正是在他的人格的待遇，他不同于他的前任是，对，而正如我们所看到的，高乃依表示为英勇征服了热情的，会迫使他的领导人物，拉辛表示他几乎无法控制的驱动激情。因此，他创作呼吁更多人的现代读者热烈，他们的讲话，即使不那么高尚，更简单，更自然和更出色，他成功地与妇女肖像比男子。
    所有这些特点体现在“Phaedre”，拉辛的悲剧已呼吁向最广泛的观众。在经处理的传说里庇得斯，拉辛增加了希波为利阿里恰爱，从而提供了菲德拉的嫉妒的动机，同时他的护士，而不是无限飞卓他的儿子诽谤者的忒修斯。
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    INTRODUCTORY NOTE
    JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE, the younger contemporary of Corneille, and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, was born at Ferte- Milon, December 21, 1639. He was educated at the College of Beauvais, at the great Jansenist school at Port Royal, and at the College d'Harcourt. He attracted notice by an ode written for the marriage of Louis XIV in 1660, and made his first really great dramatic success with his "Andromaque." His tragic masterpieces include "Britannicus," "Berenice," "Bajazet," "Mithridate," "Iphigenie," and "Phaedre," all written between 1669 and 1677. Then for some years he gave up dramatic composition, disgusted by the intrigues of enemies who sought to injure his career by exalting above him an unworthy rival. In 1689 he resumed his work under the persuasion of Mme. de Maintenon, and produced "Esther" and "Athalie," the latter ranking among his finest productions, although it did not receive public recognition until some time after his death in 1699. Besides his tragedies, Racine wrote one comedy, "Les Plaideurs," four hymns of great beauty, and a history of Port Royal.
    The external conventions of classical tragedy which had been established by Corneille, Racine did not attempt to modify. His study of the Greek tragedians and his own taste led him to submit willingly to the rigor and simplicity of form which were the fundamental marks of the classical ideal. It was in his treatment of character that he differed most from his predecessor; for whereas, as we have seen, Corneille represented his leading figures as heroically subduing passion by force of will, Racine represents his as driven by almost uncontrollable passion. Thus his creations appeal to the modern reader as more warmly human; their speech, if less exalted, is simpler and more natural; and he succeeds more brilliantly with his portraits of women than with those of men.
    All these characteristics are exemplified in "Phaedre," the tragedy of Racine which has made an appeal to the widest audience. To the legend as treated by Euripides, Racine added the love of Hippolytus for Aricia, and thus supplied a motive for Phaedra's jealousy, and at the same time he made the nurse instead of Phaedra the calumniator of his son to Theseus.