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    A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache"
    A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache"
    A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache"
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    A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache"

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    A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535818292
    A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache"

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      A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache" - Gale

      11

      Andromache

      Jean Racine

      1667

      Introduction

      In one of the greatest plays ever written, Jean Racine reshapes a classical Greek tragedy into a revenge drama worthy of Shakespeare with a simplicity and elegance that is nearly unparalleled in world literature. Racine's Andromache explores the psychological depth of Orestes and Pyrrhus, the sons of Agamemnon and Achilles, respectively, driven to madness and destruction by desire and an obsession with honor in a world whose order has been destroyed by the catastrophe of the Trojan War. In an honor-based society where women have little freedom, the play's antagonists vie for control of Hermione, the daughter of Helen of Troy, and Andromache, the widow of the Trojan hero Hector. First performed in 1667 at the court of Louis XIV, Andromache is Racine's third play and his first masterpiece. It is one of the leading works of the flourishing school of French baroque drama, which is also represented by Corneille and Molière.

      The name of the title character of Racine's play, Andromache, was originally Greek and can be written in languages that use the Roman alphabet in various ways, including Andromaque. The spelling Racine chose for the original French version of the play was Andromache. This spelling is more common in English and is frequently used as the title of English translations of the play, including the English translation by Eric Korn that is used here.

      Author Biography

      Racine was born in the small French town of Ferté on December 22, 1639. His father was a royal official in charge of collecting the salt tax. Both of Racine's parents died before he was two, so he was raised by his grandparents. After the death of his grandfather in 1649, his grandmother retired with her charge to the Cistercian abbey of Port-Royal des Champs, a center of education and educational reform in baroque France that graduated the philosopher Blaise Pascal as well as Racine. The abbey was, however, a home of Jansenist heresy (a set of religious beliefs eventually condemned by the Catholic Church as being too similar to those of the Protestant theologian John Calvin), a fact that attached some scandal to Racine's name but does not seem to have materially affected his career.

      While studying law in Paris, Racine began to show his

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