Andromache (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Racine
- First Published: 1667
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Shortly after the Trojan War
- Setting: Epirus
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Honor, Trojan War, Neoclassicism
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Epirus
Characters Discussed
Andromaque (ahn-dro-MAHK), the widow of Hector, the Trojan hero, and mother of his small son Astyanax. Andromaque, now a slave of the Greek hero Pyrrhus, spurns his advances; she has promised to be true to her dead husband. Pyrrhus does nothing to bring Andromaque to a real understanding of her situation as his slave. Frantic with love for her, Pyrrhus threatens to kill her son if she will not marry him, but he counters his extravagant threats against the boy’s life with equally extravagant promises for the future of Andromaque and her son. Pyrrhus...
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