 In Euripides' "The Trojan Women", Andromache despairs at the murder of her son Astyanax and is then given to Neoptolemus as a concubine.In his "Andromache", Euripides dramatizes when she and her child were nearly assassinated by Hermione, the wife of Neoptolemus and daughter of Helen and Menelaus.She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine (1639–1699), entitled "Andromaque", and a minor character in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida".