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Quotation from Phaedra by Jean Racine

“Oenone, serve my madness, not my reason”

Jean Racine (spoken by Phaedra)

Phaedra, Act III, Scene I, trans. Robert Bruce Boswell (published before 1910)

After her rejected declaration Phaedra knowingly asks the nurse to help the passion rather than the conscience, sending her to tempt Hippolytus with the crown.

Citation: "Oenone, serve my madness, not my reason" — Jean Racine, Phaedra, Act III, Scene I, trans. Robert Bruce Boswell (published before 1910). (id racine-phaedra-q5)

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