Andromache

by Jean Racine, Eric Korn (Translator), Eric (Translator) Korn

Overview

(Applause Books). "Love? What does love mean in this fearsome drama? Not much that is affirmative. Not much to heat the heart of a sentimental spectator. It signifies a passion that amounts to illness, an alternately aching and frantic desire that cannot be slaked. The three characters who love strive to conquer love by straining their will power to its elastic limits. And what does loved mean here? Not the ecstasy of glowing with selflessness and basking in another's affection, but a tormenting burden that cannot be shaken off, can only be readjusted to serve as an instrument of convenience or harm." from the Afterword by Albert Bermel

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557830210
Publisher:	Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Publication date:	12/01/1988
Series:	Old VIC Theatre Collection Series , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.28(w) x 7.73(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

RICHARD WILBUR, one of America’s most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.