La Troade

This is the first edition since 1641 of a play whose importance lies partly in its links with Racine’s Andromaque but more particularly in its dramaturgical, psychological and thematic originality in adapting its traditional classical material for the seventeenth-century stage.

Susanna Phillippo is a Research Fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford. James Supple is Professor of French, University of Strathclyde.