Andromache: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Andromache, credited to Jean Racine, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Andromache by Jean Racine. (Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell.) Read in English by Matthew Reece; ToddHW; Alan Mapstone; Sonia; David Purdy; Richard Jaspering; Shreya Sethi; Jessica Hendra; Hanna Ponomarenko In this tragedy [about part of the aftermath of the Trojan War], which made its appearance in 1667, there is a more intricate plot than is usual in Racine's plays, and it offers a greater variety of character and motive. Love, jealousy, friendship, conjugal fidelity, maternal tenderness, anger, and despair are all portrayed with skillful touches; and if the language is that of the French Court of the seventeenth century, the natural emotions of the human heart, the same in all ages, show themselves plainly under the mask of conventional mannerism - Summary by The Translator Cast list: Andromache, widow of Hector, Captive of Pyrrhus: Sonia Pyrrhus, Son of Achilles, King of Epirus: Matthew Reece Orestes, Son of Agamemnon: Richard Jaspering Hermione, Daughter of Helen, betrothed to Pyrrhus: Shreya Sethi Pylades, Friend of Orestes: Alan Mapstone Cleone, Friend of Hermione: Jessica Hendra Cephissa, Friend of Andromache: Hanna Ponomarenko Phoenix, Tutor of Achilles, and afterwards of Pyrrhus: ToddHW Stage Directions: David Purdy Editing: ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: Andromache
• Author credits: Jean Racine
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:43:14

Catalogue topics

• trojan war

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 24:19
2. 02 - Act 2 — 19:09
3. 03 - Act 3 — 22:11
4. 04 - Act 4 — 21:22
5. 05 - Act 5 — 16:13

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