Etienne Jodelle

Etienne Jodelle , born in 1532 with Paris where he died in July 1573, is a Poète and Dramaturge French.

Member of the Pleiad, it endeavoured to apply the principles of them to the theatrical art. He was the first to use the Alexandrin in the Tragédie. He appears as a precursor of the ancient Tragédie which is born in second half of XVIe century.

Jodelle belongs to the Parisian middle-class, but it is attracted by the nobility. It is presented indeed in the form of “a Sieur of Lymodin”. It remains in Lyon (v. 1550), then it is established in Paris where it binds with Jean Antoine de Baïf, Nicolas Denisot and Remy Belleau. It belongs to the circle of Jean Brinon. With the beginning of the year 1553, it makes represent the humanistic first Tragédie, Cléopâtre captivates , and the first humanistic comedy, the Eugene , in front of the king, in Paris (hotel of Rheims), then with the Collège of Boncourt. To celebrate the first representation, Jodelle and its friends of the Pleiad, in Arcueil, proceed to the “pump of the goat”, as one did it in Antiquity. It from now on is protected by the Cardinal from Lorraine and by Marguerite de France. He writes one second tragedy, Didon sacrificing that Jacques Grévin imitates when he writes his César (1561).

In 1558, it is charged by the municipality with Paris with organizing a spectacle in the honor of the king Henri II which has just conquered Calais. This festival is a failure. It is about this time that he would have been condemned to death. It moves away from the Court, then it ends up returning there. He writes against the Protestants ( Against the Ministers for the new opinion ). Jodelle would have been delighted by the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. It perhaps belonged to the literary circle of the Marshal's wife de Retz. He dies in misery. The poet protesting Agrippa of Aubigné celebrates it in funeral Vers .

It is Charles of Mothe which, after the death of the poet, made print his Œuvres and meslanges poetic (Paris, NR. Chesneau and Mr. Patisson, 1574).

Works

Its works were published after its death by Charles of Mothe.

Modern editions

  • Didon sacrificing , published by J. - C. Ternaux, Paris, Champion, 2002
  • complete Works , published by E. Balmas, Paris, Gallimard, 1968

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