by Jean Racine · Nathan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782091885797
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«Andromaque» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Nathan in paperback (156 pages, in French).
After the war, Andromaque, widow of Hector, is a prisoner of Pyrrhus, who desires her; Pyrrhus is engaged to Hermione, and she is loved by Orestes. Andromaque must choose between fidelity to Hector and the protection of her son, surrounded by passions and struggles. The pedagogical apparatus analyses Racine's language and the modernity of the character.
It belongs to the Carrés Classiques collection and reproduces the complete text; includes pedagogical apparatus with questionnaire and analysis of the mechanisms of tragic theatre. The play premiered in 1667.
Edition aimed at secondary school students and readers interested in classical French 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.
