Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides By SUSANNA PHILLIPPO.
Oxford: Legenda. 2003. xvi+214PP. 19.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-9007-5661-0.
It is generally accepted that Racine, a confirmed Hellenist (unusually for the creative writers of his time), used Euripides more than Aeschylus or Sophocles as source material for his plays. Other such hypotheses cannot be proposed with the same assurance, as R. C. Knight showed so persuasively over half a century ...