Nicolas Pradon

Nicolas Pradon (known as sometimes Jacques Pradon ), born with Rouen in 1632 and deceased with Paris the January 14th 1698, was a Dramaturge French.

Early in his career, Nicolas Pradon received the assistance of Pierre Corneille and Antoinette Of Houlières which presented it in the living rooms of the Hôtel of Nevers and of the Hôtel of Bubble.

Pradon is the author of eight tragedies which enjoyed a moderated success, but which was severely judged by Boileau and its rival Racine which also produced tragedies resting on the stories of Bajazet and of Phèdre. “The only difference between Pradon and me is that me I can write” would have it says. This competition was particularly intense when Pradon published Phèdre and Hippolyte at the time when Racine left its clean Phèdre . The authors Donneau de Visé and Subligny have both taken the party of Pradon. It is said that Boileau placed the name of Pradon in its Satires to replace that of Boursault which paid for him a sum that it could not regulate. Pradon was the author, his life during, several attacks against Boileau. It was party of Old in the Querelle of Old and Modern the.

The parts of Pradon were largely décriées by modern criticisms for their lack of imagination or historical reality, their blind adhesion with the Règle of the three units and with the “proprieties”. Refusing to show a mother-in-law in love with her son-in-law, made Pradon of Phèdre been engaged of Thésée while its character of Tamerlan behaves in all points like a gentleman of the court of France at the 17th century.

Works

Pyrame and Thisbé , 1674
Tamerlan, or the Death of Bajazet , 1676
Phèdre and Hippolyte , 1677
Troade , 1679
Statira , 1680
Regulus , 1688
Germanicus , 1694
Scipion the African , 1697
Electra
Tarquin
New remarks on all the works of the sior D *** '', 1685

Answer to satire X of the sior D ** '', 1694

Epitaph

Ci-to lie Poëte Pradon,

Which during forty years, of a heat without similar,

the FIT with the beard of Apollo,

the same trade as Crow.

External bond

Its plays and their representations on site CÉSAR

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