Andromède
Sign in to savethumb|Title page (1651, 2nd edition)
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10 sectionsContents
- Background
- Plot
- Characters
- Gods in the Machines
- Mortals
- Premiere
- Engravings by Chauveau
- Later productions
- Notes
- Bibliography
thumb|Title page (1651, 2nd edition)
Andromède (Andromeda) is a French verse play in a prologue and five acts by Pierre Corneille, first performed on 1 February 1650 by the Troupe Royale de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne at the Théâtre Royal de Bourbon in Paris. The story is taken from Books IV and V of Ovid's Metamorphoses and concerns the transformation of Perseus and Andromeda. The play has rarely been revived and is mostly remembered today for the set of six engravings by François Chauveau depicting the elaborate Baroque set designs of Giacomo Torelli.