by Jean Racine, Pierre Donnet · HACHETTE EDUC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011693020
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«Andromaque» is the tragedy by Jean Racine and Pierre Donnet, published by Hachette Education in paperback (159 pages, in French).
After the fall of Troy, Andromache, captive of Pyrrhus, rejects his love, as he is betrothed to Hermione. Pyrrhus then threatens to execute Astyanax, Andromache's son, if she does not yield. Orestes, in love with Hermione, completes a chain of crossed passions that drags the characters toward a tragic outcome.
It belongs to the Classiques Hachette collection (no. 15), with complete text, notes, questionnaires and pedagogical material. The play premiered in 1667.
School edition, intended for students preparing for the French Baccalauréat and for those studying seventeenth-century classical theatre.
Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
