Idoménée (Crébillon)

See also: Idoménée

Idoménée is a Tragédie into five acts and Towards of Crébillon father, represented for the first time at the Comédie-Française the December 29th 1705 with a rather great success.

Characters

  • Idoménée , king de Crète.
  • Idamante , wire of Idomenée.
  • Êrixène , girl of Mérion, prince rebels.
  • Sophrosyme , minister of Idoménée.
  • Égésippe , officer of the palate.
  • Polyclète , confidant of Idamante.
  • Ismène , confidante of Êrixène.
  • Continuation of the king .
  • Guards .

History

Idoménée, king de Crète, and his Idamante son, are both in love with Érixène, wire of Mérion, prince who vainly disputed the crown with Idoménée and which this last made perish. This competition hardly brings bounces and produces only long languorous conversations and mutual reproaches between the father and the son. At the end, this one bores of its sword.

The part, the first of Crébillon, announces its manner only by some energetic worms and some passages, like the description of the storm, full with a dark size.

an appalling night on water widespread

Concealed all-with-blow these objects at my sight;
death only appeared to with it… the vast center of the seas
between opened three times to Us the road of the hells.
By opposite winds the collected waves,
Of the deep abyss jusques to the sky pushed,
In the set ablaze airs agitated my vessels,
As close perishing there as to melt under water.
Of a flood of fires the wave as lit
Seemed to roll on us an ignited sea;
And Neptune in ire with so much unhappy
offered for any safety only dreadful rocks.

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