by Jean Racine · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011691200
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«Andromaque» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Hachette in paperback within the Bibliolycée collection (198 pages, in French).
After the fall of Troy, Andromaque, widow of Hector, is a prisoner of Pyrrhus, who desires her and threatens the life of Astyanax, son of Andromaque and Hector, to bend her will. Hermione, Pyrrhus's fiancée, and Orestes, in love with her, join a chain of unrequited loves that leads everyone to a tragic end.
School edition from the Bibliolycée collection: complete annotated text, analysis questions, and presentation of Racine and his era. Andromaque was originally published in 1667.
Edition aimed at secondary school students studying classical French tragedy in the classroom.
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.
