Keyword: Adélaïde du Guesclin

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Alamire, a tragedy in five acts, is the fourth version of Voltaire’s play Adélaïde du Guèsclin. Disappointed by the lukewarm reception of the original, which was performed only eleven times in Paris in 1734, Voltaire revised the tragedy three times in 1751. Alamire is the fourth and final version. The interest of this manuscript lies not so much in the light it sheds on a definitive state of Alamire as in the glimpse it gives us of a rough copy of a play by Voltaire.

Repository: National Library of Russia
CMV: cmv33873

Le Duc d’Alençon ou les Frères ennemis is a tragedy in three acts by Voltaire. The text is a new version of Voltaire’s tragedy Adélaïde du Guèsclin (1734), written in Berlin, and premiered in 1751 for Frederick II. According to T. D. N. Besterman, the folios are numbered 312-331.

Repository: National Library of Russia
CMV: cmv33876