Jean Mairet

Jean Mairet , born with Besancon the January 4th 1604 and died in the same city the January 31st 1686, was a Dramaturge French.

Jean Mairet went to Paris to study with the Collège of Grassins towards 1625, year at the time which it produced his first part Chryséide and Arimand . In 1634, it produced its masterpiece, Sophonisbe , of which observation of the Règle of the three units mark the beginning of the regular Tragédie S. It also introduced this rule of which it was made the defender in the French drama following a faulty reading of the Poétique of Aristote.

It was one of the keenest opponents of Corneille in the quarrel of the Cid which despizes rule of the three units. It writes on this occasion several lampoons against Corneille, which answers various recoveries it: Advertissement in Besançonnois Mairet (1637). One will not less need anything than the personal intervention Richelieu so that cease the quarrel. Once its parts ceased meeting as much success than the preceding ones, his jealousy of Crow, added to died of his guards the duke of Montmorency then the count de Belin, perhaps incited it to cease writing for the theater.

He was named official representative of his native Franche-Comté in 1648, which enabled him to remain with Paris. He negotiates on this occasion some important treaties among which a “treaty of neutrality enters the Franche-Comté and the French territories of its vicinity”, ratified the September 25th 1651 by Louis XIV. Banished of Paris in 1653 by the cardinal Mazarin “to have held of the contrary speeches with the service of Roy”, it could then return, but was withdrawn in 1668 in Besancon which it hardly any more left.

Works on line

  • Sophonisbe , tragedy (1643)
  • Virginia , tragi-comedy (1633)
  • the Marc-Antoine, or Cléopâtre , tragedy (1635)
  • Athénaïs , tragi-comedy (1642)
  • the Sidonie , tragi-comedy (1643)

Other works

  • the Sylvie , tragi-comedy pastoral (1626)
  • Silvanire, or it Dead-sharp , with a foreword detailed on the observation of the rule of the three units (1631)
  • Galanteries of the duke of Ossonne , comedy (1632)
  • illustrates It corsair , tragi-comedy (1636)
  • the Large one and last Solyman , tragedy (1637)
  • the Famous corsair , tragi-comedy (1640)
  • the furious Roland , tragi-comedy (1641)

External bond

Its plays and their representations on site CÉSAR

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