Mahomet second

Mahomet second is a Tragédie in unfinished Prose written by Marivaux towards 1733 and which one has a act and five Scène S in Prose published for the first time in the Mercure de France of March 1747.

Genesis

Attending, with Houdar of the Mound, the defender of the use of prose in the tragedy, the living room of the marchioness of Lambert where the question was discussed of versification, Marivaux tried to bring there an empirical answer with Mahomet second , although it wiped a failure ten years earlier with Annibal . No request succeeds in persuading it to finish this tragedy whose subject had already been put at contribution by Claude Basset in a lost part, then by Vivien de Châteaubrun in a part which knew eleven representations with the French Comédie in 1714.

Characters

Ibrahim
Irene
Mahomet
Roxane
Theodore , father of Irene,
Lascaris , his/her brother.

History

Ibrahim, a prince Comnène, combined with the Greek imperial family, which converted with Islam after her capture by the Turks, was charged by the sultan Mahomet second, of which it became the favorite, with learning with the Greek Irene, captive princess, like him, of the Turks that his/her Theodore father and his Lascaris brother, vintages died in the battle, are alive, but also that it likes it and wishes to marry it. This one pushes back with height the proposal of the sultan and overpowers Ibrahim of his contempts to have agreed to submit itself to the Turks. The sultan, who had initially thought of making marry his sister with Ibrahim, now thinks of making it marry by Lascaris, and it counts on the recognition of Irene to facilitate her plans of marriage. The sultan makes bring in front of it Theodore and Lascaris, charged with irons, and releases them to attract itself its good graces. Lascaris and Roxane, remained only, conclude the act by a dialog where they acknowledge their mutual feelings.

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