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    Jean de Mairet (1877). Sophonisbe was edited by K. Vollmöller (Heilbronn, 1888), and Silvanire by R. Otto (Bamberg, 1890). Works by Jean Mairet at Project...
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    Sophonisba (redirect from Sophonisbe)
    the better known form because of later literature. She is also called Sophonisbe and Sophoniba. However, her true name might be unclear. Her story is told...
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    Sophonisbe, Tragédie de Mairet, reparée à neuf, Veuve Duchesne, Paris, 1770. Voltaire added an explanatory preface in which he claimed that Mairet's work...
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    took several shots at criticizing author Jean Mairet's family and lineage. Scudéry, a close friend of Mairet at the time, did not stoop to Corneille's level...
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  • of the 1630s, she is likely to have played the title role in Sophonisbe by Jean Mairet, which restored tragedy to the Paris stage in 1634. The contemporary...
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  • father of historian Gérard Dédéyan. (direction d'ouvrage) Jean Mairet, La Sophonisbe, Paris 1945, 1969 (direction d'ouvrage) Montaigne, Journal de voyage...
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  • messenger. Mellin de Saint-Gelais's translation of Gian Giorgio Trissino's La Sophonisbe—the first modern regular tragedy based on ancient models which tells the...
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    1634. Toward the end of that year Montdory presented Jean Mairet's masterpiece Sophonisbe. He performed Herod in Tristan l'Hermite's La Mariane with...
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    first performance), includes: Antoine de Montchrestien (c.1575–1621) Sophonisbe, AKA La Cathaginoise, AKA La Liberté (tragedy) 1596 La Reine d'Ecosse...
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