The spark is lighted when Pyrrhus declares to Andromaque that if she will not marry him he will execute her son.
Racine revealed himself in the Andromaque as the "first modern poet."
It can even go as far as weeping the traditional six tears, as Madame de Sevigne did for Andromaque.
This, of course, was little Rachel, who was about to play the part of Hermione in Andromaque.
Lithen: Andromaque ith a queen whothe huthband hath been killed; Pyrrhuth here wanth to marry her, and the wont.
