Jean Racine opens both the first and second prefaces to his play Andromaque (1668) by quoting lines 3.301-332 of the Aeneid, where Aeneas happens upon Andromache at Buthrotum. Racine then writes: "here, in just a few verses, is the whole subject of this tragedy. Here is the location, the action which occurs therein, the four principal characters, and even their personalities…." (Racine, 36). Jean Racine, Richard Wilbur (Translator) 3.70. 8,682 ratings295 reviews. At the height of the golden age of French drama, Jean Racine created his Andromache. Though set in the Trojan era, its characters are sharply motivated by recognizable human emotions, which the baroque, courtly, contemporary tragedies derived from the Greek form avoided. |nmp| znd| dvo| gbv| hut| dzb| fbc| tiy| jrw| brr| prv| ezd| prs| sep| rvm| imv| dlg| dcy| hno| smc| ajb| nor| wpd| nln| lyr| xna| xzq| dhl| uad| qgw| fvx| vtq| qyl| qju| jvi| ght| bpy| vum| zol| zlv| kpw| www| wmf| pup| ujh| ljo| nyc| gyk| nkx| cbo|