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Jean-Baptiste Lully

La Princesse d'Élide

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

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. .
  • 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). .
  • 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. .
  • Wine, Kathleen (2002), “Princesse d’Élide, La”, pp. 391–392, in The Molière Encyclopedia, edited by James F. Gaines. Westport, Connecticut/London: Greenwood Press. .
  • Thompson, Ian (2006), pp. 134-135, in The Sun King’s Garden, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. .
  • Livret (1665), Gallica
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Jean-Baptiste Lully