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    Andromache A Play in Three Acts
    Andromache A Play in Three Acts
    Andromache A Play in Three Acts
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    Andromache A Play in Three Acts

    By Gilbert Murray

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Andromache A Play in Three Acts - Gilbert Murray

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Andromache, by Gilbert Murray

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      Title: Andromache

      A Play in Three Acts

      Author: Gilbert Murray

      Release Date: February 17, 2012 [eBook #38909]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANDROMACHE***

      E-text prepared by James Wright

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team

      (http://www.pgdpcanada.net)

      ANDROMACHE

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

      Paper, 1s. 6d.; Cloth, 2s. 6d.

      CARLYON SAHIB

      A Drama in Four Acts

      ——

      London: William Heinemann

      21 Bedford Street, W.C.

      ANDROMACHE

      A PLAY   

      In Three Acts

      By

      GILBERT MURRAY

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      MDCCCC

      All rights, including Acting rights in the

      English Language, reserved

      Prefatory Letter

      Dramatis Personæ

      The First Act

      The Second Act

      The Third Act

      PREFATORY LETTER.

      My Dear ARCHER,

      The germ of this play sprang into existence on a certain April day in 1896 which you and I spent chiefly in dragging our reluctant bicycles up the great hills that surround Riveaulx Abbey, and discussing, so far as the blinding rain allowed us, the questions whether all sincere comedies are of necessity cynical, and how often we had had tea since the morning, and how far it would be possible to treat a historical subject loyally and unconventionally on a modern stage. Then we struck (as, I fear, is too often the fate of those who converse with me) on the subject of the lost plays of the Greek tragedians. We talked of the extraordinary variety of plot that the Greek dramatist found in his historical tradition, the force, the fire, the depth and richness of character-play. We thought of the marvellous dramatic possibilities of an age in which actual and living heroes and sages were to be seen moving against a background of primitive superstition and blank savagery; in which the soul of man walked more free from trappings than seems ever to have been permitted to it since. But I must stop; I see that I am approaching the common pitfall of playwrights who venture upon prefaces, and am beginning to prove how good my play ought to be!

      What I want to remind you of is this: that we agreed that a simple historical play, with as little convention as possible, placed in the Greek Heroic Age, and dealing with one of the ordinary heroic stories, ought to be, well, an interesting experiment. Beyond this point, I know, we began to differ. You wanted verse and the Greece of the English poets. I wanted, above all things, a nearer approach to my conception of the real Greece, the Greece of history and even—dare I say it?—of anthropology! I recognise your full right to disapprove of every word and every sentiment of this play from the first to the last, but I hope you will not grudge me the pleasure of associating your name with at least the inception of the experiment, and thanking you at the same time for the many gifts of friendly encouragement and stimulating objurgation which you have bestowed upon

      Yours sincerely,            

      GILBERT MURRAY.

      January 1900.

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      Certain Maidens, Myrmidons, Men-at-Arms.

      The Action takes place in Phthia, on the Southern borders of Thessaly, about fifteen years after the Fall of Troy.

      ANDROMACHE

      THE FIRST ACT

      Scene: The coast of Phthia. Rocks at the back, with the sea visible behind them. One of the rocks is a shrine, having niches cut in it for receiving offerings. On the right in front is the Altar of Thetis, shrouded in trees; to the left, a well. A path to the left leads to Pyrrhus' castle; another, far back to the right, leads to the house of the Priest. It is the morning twilight, with a faint glimmer of dawn.

      At the foot of the rock Orestes is seated in meditation; he carries two spears, and wears the garb of a traveller. An Armed Man is moving off the stage at the back, as though going towards the sea; he stops suddenly, listens, and hides behind a rock.

      Enter, coming up from the sea, Pylades, armed.

      The Man steps out.

      Man.

      My lord Pylades.

      Pylades.

      Where have you left him?

      Man.

      Yonder, by the shrine. He bade me go back to the ship.

      Pylades.

      [Crossing to Orestes.]  Is it too late to turn your purpose?

      Orestes.

      [As though

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