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Andromache
by Jean Racine
In this tragedy [about part of the aftermath of the Trojan War], which made its appearance in 1667, there is a more intricate plot than is usual in Racine's plays, and it offers a greater variety of character and motive. Love, jealousy, friendship, conjugal fidelity, maternal tenderness, anger, and despair are all portrayed with skillful touches; and if the language is that of the French Court of the seventeenth century, the natural emotions of the human heart, the same in all ages, show themselves plainly under the mask of conventional mannerism - Summary by The Translator
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Andromache, widow of Hector, Captive of Pyrrhus: Sonia
Pyrrhus, Son of Achilles, King of Epirus: Matthew Reece
Orestes, Son of Agamemnon: Richard Jaspering
Hermione, Daughter of Helen, betrothed to Pyrrhus: Shreya Sethi
Pylades, Friend of Orestes: Alan Mapstone
Cleone, Friend of Hermione: Jessica Hendra
Cephissa, Friend of Andromache: Hanna Ponomarenko
Phoenix, Tutor of Achilles, and afterwards of Pyrrhus: ToddHW
Stage Directions: David Purdy
Editing: ToddHW
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Jean Racine
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Jean Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racin...
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