Soul and Passion: Marina Tsvetaeva's Classical PlaysMarina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 1941) is recognized as one of the foremost Russian poets of the twentieth century. Yet while much of her poetry and prose have been translated into English, her poetic dramatic works have, until now, been unavailable to an anglophone readership. In this volume her two classical dramas, Ariadne (1927) and Phaedra (1928), are translated with an introduction and notes. In Tsvetaeva's unusual retellings of these well known