HKB
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Often appears with: oenone explanation · honor, shame, and reputation · hippolytus innocence · equity, mercy, and pardon · crime and punishment · betrayal
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · betrayal (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1)
Hippolytus fears Phaedra will accuse herself to destroy herself and plans to persuade Theseus gently, but Theseus has already decided betrayal exists; Oenone claims she tried to interpret Phaedra’s tears as protection of Theseus from shame.
HIPPOLYTUS, THERAMENES HIPPOLYTUS What do these words portend, which seem'd to freeze My very blood? Will Phaedra, in her frenzy Accuse herself, and seal her own destruction? What will the King say? Gods! What fatal poison Has love spread over all his house! Myself, Full of a fire his hatred disapproves, How changed he finds me from the son he kne…