"Andromache: A Play in Three Acts" by Gilbert Murray is a powerful play that looks at love, revenge, and what happens after wars. It focuses on Andromache, whose husband Hector died in the Trojan War, as she deals with tough relationships after her city falls. The story takes place in ancient Greece, where personal wants mix with big historical events about heroes and getting even. The play, split into three parts, tells about Andromache, who is now held by Pyrrhus, Achilles' son, and her child, Molossus. Things get heated when Orestes, Agamemnon's son, comes back wanting revenge and to take Hermione, who was supposed to marry him, away from Pyrrhus. Orestes fights his own problems as he plans against Pyrrhus, while Hermione struggles with wanting power and her shaky role as a woman in a world run by men. Their desperate actions cause bad things to happen, like Orestes facing Pyrrhus, Andromache's son dying, and a last sad plea for peace after all the harm caused by war. The linked lives of these people show how lasting the effects of what they want truly lasts, and the deep wounds left behind after fighting.
Andromache: A Play in Three Acts
By Gilbert Murray
In a world of ancient heroes and vengeful gods, a Trojan widow and a captive son become pawns in a deadly game of love and power, where every choice brings about devastating consequences.
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About the AuthorGeorge Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.
George Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.
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