Frances Poet’s What Put the Blood explores Jean Racine’s Andromaque (1667), a beautifully written mimetic tragedy based on Euripides’ Andromache and the third book of Virgil’s Aeneid. Racine’s tragedies introduce some Aristotelian theories on tragic plot structure based on the … Continue reading What Put The Blood at the Abbey Theatre Frances Poet’s most recent production “offers a peculiar, though worthwhile, experience”.