Andromache has often been criticized as
an incoherent, rambling play without a dra-
matic or thematic middle. The beginning sec-
tion deals with the affection triangle regarding
Neoptolemus, Hermione, and Andromache.
Neoptolemus is absent; the drama is performed
out first between Hermione and Andromache,
then between Menelaus and Andromache, and,
in the end, among Peleus and Menelaus. At that
point, now not pretty 800 lines into the play, Andro-
mache makes her very last go out, after thankingPeleus for shielding her from Menelaus. The
title man or woman has truly left the degree. The
2d large collection, and 2nd “love
triangle,” involve Orestes, Hermione, and the
nevertheless absent Neoptolemus. At the stop in their
communique, at approximately line 1,000, Orest
