Andromache

by Jean Racine, Douglas Dunn

80 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Gavin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Epic verse always sounds too pat to me, and doubly so when forced to fit dialogue: mumming couples expositing couplets. (“I’ll kill myself. That final ploy shall save / My honour. Then I’ll give back from the grave / What I owe Pyrrhus.”) Not Dunn’s fault – the pentameter’s solid.

And he agrees: “It was a bloody hard piece of work… and I think it was universally agreed that I didn’t fully succeed.”