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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean Racine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"Andromaque", in 1667, proved a great success, and was followed by his only comedy "Les Plaideurs" (1668).
		"Andromaque" achieved as great a success as "Le Cid", and deservedly.
		No characters on the French stage are more interesting and attractive than "Hermione", the type of passionate love, and "Andromaque", of maternal.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12630b.htm (774 words)

	Biography of Jean Racine - French Dramatist
		eginning with Andromaque (1667) and ending with his masterpiece, Phèdre (1677), the plays of this decade of Racine's life established him as the peer of the long-renowned Corneille and, in the opinion of many -- especially in the younger generation -- established him as France's leading dramatist.
		Elaborating on the aftermath of the Trojan War, Andromaque shows Hector's widow, Andromache, caught in the crosscurrents of passion.
		As great a success as Corneille's Le Cid had been three decades earlier, Andromaque occasioned a great rivalry between the two dramatists that was intensified by Racine's treatment of the Corneillean theme of political strife in Britannicus (1669) and came to a climax with Berenice (1670).
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Theatre/Racine/racine.shtml (831 words)

	Phedre
		Of the three audiences that a dramatist had to win over to succeed in the theatre—the court, the general public, and the scholar critics—Racine doggedly pursued all three, though he had sharp clashes with the third group, who were mostly friends of his great rival, the older dramatist Pierre Corneille.
		He situated Bajazet (1672) in nearly contemporary Turkish history and depicted a famous enemy of Rome in Mithridate (1673) before returning to Greek mythology in Iphigénie en Aulide (1674; Iphigenia in Aulis) and the play that was his crowning achievement, Phèdre (1677).
		In Andromaque (1667) Racine replaced heroism with realism in a tragedy about the folly and blindness of unrequited love among a chain of four characters.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/0203/phedre/playnotes.shtml (10183 words)

	Roland Barthes Quotes
		There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport.
		Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
		There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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