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British première performance of Andromache was at the Paxton Suite, Buxton on 9 August 1984. The play was then performed during 1984–1985. Between 2007–2009 Cheek by Jowl performed Andromaque in French. The first
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of passions, particularly love". In addition, the author favors "a language of simple diction, which reproduces with ease the allure of prose without ever losing poetic color", contrasting with the "tense, pompous and willingly declamatory style of
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ambassador, arrives at the court of Pyrrhus, supposedly to convince him on behalf of the Greeks to put Astyanax, the son of Andromaque and Hector, to death, for fear that he may one day avenge
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517:Edward Kemp
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52:Andromaque
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1054:Andromache
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983:Mithridate
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471:Rossini
465:with a
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311:Orestes
296:Pyrrhus
227:Electra
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203:Spartan
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187:Ulysses
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71:Setting
66:Phoenix
62:Cléone
60:Pylade
56:Oreste
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158:Aeneid
153:Virgil
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