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Molière’s “Mélicerte” (Introduction)

01 Wednesday May 2019

Posted by michelinewalker in Comedy

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comédie pastorale héroïque, Isaac de Benserade, Le Ballet des Muses, Mélicerte, Micheline Bourbeau-Walker, Molière, Saint-Germain 1666, Thalia muse of comedy

Thalia by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1739, Musée des beaux-arts de San Francisco (wikimedia.org)

Mélicerte is a:

  • two-act heroic pastoral comedy inhabited by shepherds and shepherdesses.
  • It is an incomplete (two acts out of three) heroic pastoral comedy
  • Molière wrote Mélicerte in alexandrine verses, le vers noble.
  • Molière’s Mélicerte is the third of thirteen “entrées” in Isaac de Benserade‘s Ballet des Muses.
  • Thalia is the muse of comedy.
  • The music was composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
  • Molière drew his inspiration from an épisode of Le Grand Cyrus, a novel by Madeleine de Scudéry (Sapho) who had a salon. Guests visited on Saturday. It was la Société du samedi, the Saturday Society.
  • Mélicerte was performed for the court on 2 December 1666, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a royal residence.
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Mélicerte, anonymous (théâtre.documention.com)

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