Premiere of La Princesse d'Élide at Versailles in 1664

La Princesse d'Élide (The Princess of Elis) is a 1664 French comic play ("comédie galante") in 5 acts in verse and prose by Molière, who based it on Agustin Moreto y Cabaña's 1654 Spanish play El desdén con el desdén (Scorn for Scorn) but moved the location to Elis in Greece.[1][2] The play includes six intermèdes with verses by Molière and music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.[3][4]

It was first performed on 8 May 1664 as part of Louis XIV's multi-day royal festival Les Plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée at Versailles and revived in July four times for the court at the Palace of Fontainebleau and on 9 November for public performances at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris, where it ran until 4 January 1665, its twenty-fifth representation and the last by the troupe of Molière.[1][2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lancaster 1936, pp. 617–620.
  2. ^ a b Garreau 1984, pp. 408, 417.
  3. ^ a b Wine 2002.
  4. ^ Powell 2000, pp. 337, 339.

Bibliography

  • Garreau, Joseph E. (1984). "Molière", vol. 3, pp. 397–418 in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, Stanley Hochman, editor in chief. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070791695.
  • Lancaster, Henry Carrington (1936). A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century. Part III: The Period of Molière 1652–1672. New York: Gordian Press (1966 reprint). OCLC 477005751.
  • Powell, John S. (2000). Chapter 15: "The Public Reception of a Court Success: La Princesse d'Élide", pp. 337–353, in his Music and Theatre in France 1600–1680. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198165996.
  • Wine, Kathleen (2002), "Princesse d'Élide, La", pp. 391–392, in The Molière Encyclopedia, edited by James F. Gaines. Westport, Connecticut/London: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313312557.

Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Princesse_d%27%C3%89lide
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