ABSTRACT
Neither the excursion of Les Plaideurs nor the death of the Du Parc caused Racine to deviate for long from his more serious professional ambitions. Andromaque had confirmed his self-confidence and given him a strong taste for fame. There was no measuring the heights to which, as a tragic dramatist, he might rise. The only doubt—since no writer, however original, works without reference to his contemporary world—concerned the path which he should take and the exact nature of the reputation to which he should aspire.
