by Jean Racine · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011679499
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«Andromaque» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Hachette Education in paperback within the Biblio collège collection (159 pages, in French).
Set after the Trojan War, Andromache, widow of Hector and prisoner of Pyrrhus, suffers the king's blackmail: surrender to his love or lose her son. Hermione and Orestes, trapped in their own feelings, fuel jealousy and palace intrigues. The conflict of power and passion moves towards a tragic outcome.
This edition belongs to the school collection Biblio collège, number 23, and includes notes, quizzes and a study dossier by Monique Emond-Bonetto and Marie-Laure Bouchand.
For students of French and readers seeking an annotated edition of a classic French tragedy, with study aids.
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.
