Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah (Oxford World's Classics)

I'm disappointed about the quality of the translation. It didn't get all the poetic talent of Jean Racine.

Writing in 17th century France, Racine took classical stories and re-wrote them into modern plays refracting a view of his own France through the lens of classicism.The fatal love of Phaedra, wife of Theseus, for her stepson Hippolytus is one of Racine's most brooding tragedies, drawing on both Euripides and Seneca. And Britannicus uncovers the lethal court politics under Nero as the son of Claudius is assassinated.The texture of the French has, inevitably, been lost, but these are still eminently readable versions of Racine.

Does exactly what it should when it should.