Mérope
Sign in to savethumb|Voltaire Mérope 1744 thumb|Jean-Michel Moreau: Illustration of Mérope 1783 Mérope (original French title: La Mérope Française) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy Merope (1713) by Scipione Maffei, dating from 1736/1737. The play premiered in 1743 and first appeared in print in 1744.
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- Author
- Voltaire
- First published
- 1744
- Editions
- 6
- Subjects
- Drama, Fiction, Merope, wife of Cresphontes
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- Background
- Action
- Performance and critical reception
- Printed editions
- References
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thumb|Voltaire Mérope 1744 thumb|Jean-Michel Moreau: Illustration of Mérope 1783 Mérope (original French title: La Mérope Française) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy Merope (1713) by Scipione Maffei, dating from 1736/1737. The play premiered in 1743 and first appeared in print in 1744.
==Background== Scipione Maffei worked the classical story into his tragedy '' in 1713. Voltaire met Maffei in Paris in 1733 and secured his agreement that it should be adapted into a French tragedy. Voltaire decided to premiere it only after the staging of his tragedy Mahomet, although he had completed work on it in 1737.