Andromaque
Depuis la mort de son mari Hector, tué par Achille lors de la guerre de Troie, la belle Andromaque est prisonnière de Pyrrhus, roi d'Épire et vainqueur du conflit. Fou amoureux d'elle, et alors qu'il doit épouser Hermione, fille du roi de Sparte Ménélas, Pyrrhus tente l'impossible pour séduire Andromaque. Déchirée entre le désir de rester fidèle au défunt Hector et l'espoir de protéger leur fils Astyanax, elle se résout à accepter la demande en mariage de son geôlier. Hermione, furieuse, fomente dans l'ombre sa vengeance...
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Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French: ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) 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.
Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage.
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