The role of poetry in the philosophical system of SenecaTragedy as a form of dramaturgy in Rome; The Theatre of Seneca; Phaedra by Seneca -- sources and contaminations; The structure of tragic plot in Phaedra; The stage of hope; The stage of shame and conce; The stage of self-destruction; Summary; CHAPTER IV: Racine and the Monograph of Love; Tragedy and Tragism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; The Inspirations of Jean Baptiste Racine; The Dramaturgy of Jean Baptiste Racine; The Evolution of the Myth of Phaedra in the Tragedyby Jean Baptiste Racine; Phaedra's Self-analysis