Merely An Unfortunate Accident instead— she didn't mean to accuse Hippolytus in her suicide note, Theseus simply interpreted it as such because he is a Terrible Man who assumes that all men are Also Terrible, and kills Hippolytus anyway!
We are rapidly appproaching stage "I appreciate you reading these retellings so that I don't have to interact with them myself and blow a fuse."
If you need a chaser, Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962) is a fantastic modern version that chooses to avert the false rape accusation and is still a tragedy which doesn't require simplistically inverting sympathy for anyone. Also my vehement reactions to some contemporary criticism of it inspired a poem, which is the best possible result of thinking that people are being idiots about art.
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Date: 2022-12-28 08:31 pm (UTC)We are rapidly appproaching stage "I appreciate you reading these retellings so that I don't have to interact with them myself and blow a fuse."
If you need a chaser, Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962) is a fantastic modern version that chooses to avert the false rape accusation and is still a tragedy which doesn't require simplistically inverting sympathy for anyone. Also my vehement reactions to some contemporary criticism of it inspired a poem, which is the best possible result of thinking that people are being idiots about art.