by Jean Racine · Hatier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782218024047
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«Andromaque» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Hatier in paperback (159 pages, in French).
Set after the Trojan War, the play focuses on Andromache, widow of Hector, and the fate of her son Astyanax. Love, duty, revenge and sacrifice intertwine in a political and personal conflict that fuels the tension of classical tragedy.
Edition with complete text and a dossier on the heroines of Antiquity and classical tragedy; part of the Classiques Hatier collection.
Edition aimed at secondary school students approaching French 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.
