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Re-Casting the Phaedra Syndrome: Myth and Morality in Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale

In a recently published study, Albert S. Gerard examines what he calls "the Phaedra syndrome" in four major theatrical texts: Hippolytos by Euripides; Phaedra by Seneca; Lope de Vega's EI Castigo sin Venganza; and Phedre by Racine. The subtitle of his book The Phaedra Syndrome: Of Shame and Guilt in Drama indicates the nature of the preoccupations of his inquiry; not only is it an analysis which contrasts the way that several imponant playwrights have presented the character of Phaedra but, more interestingly, it is an investigation into how their treatment of her relates to the moral and intellectual climate of their times.