Genre: Tragedy

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There is no cast list given in this MS copy. The play premiered on 3 September 1760 and was performed at the Comédie Française 383 times between 1760 and 1855.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37581

There is no cast list given in this MS copy. The play premiered on 3 September 1760 and was performed at the Comédie Française 383 times between 1760 and 1855.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37580

The play was first performed at the Comédie française on 3 September 1760. Lekain was to perform in the production 64 times between 1760 and 1778.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37579

The play was first performed at the Comédie française on 20 August 1755. Lekain acted in the role of Gengis Khan 76 times between 1755 and 1774, including 24 performances in the opening year.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1750-1777
CMV: cmv37537

The play was first performed at the Comédie-Française on 12 January 1750. Lekain played the role of Oreste 17 times between 1761 and 1777.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1761
CMV: cmv37513

Rome sauvée was first performed at the Comédie-Française on 24 February 1752. Lekain played the role of Cicéron twice between 1761 and 1762. In eleven other productions of the same play, he played Catilina instead.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1761
CMV: cmv37512

This copy is not the performance text. It varies from first editions of the play, and with Lekain’s actor’s copy of the role of Catilina (CMV37509). The play was first performed at the Comédie-Française at the Jeu de Paume de l’Etoile on Thursday 24 February 1752.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1752
CMV: cmv37511

Brutus was first performed at the Comédie-Française on 11 December 1730. Lekain first took on the role of Titus on 14 September 1750. He would perform the role 20 times between 1753 and 1770.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1750
CMV: cmv37510

The play was first perfomred at the Comédie-Française on 24 February 1752. Lekain would act in the play 11 times. Between 1761 and 1762, he played the role of Cicero twice.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1752
CMV: cmv37509

The copy is found within a collection of female roles. The roles pertain to French performances given at the Stuttgarter Hofttheatre between 1758 and 1767.

Repository: Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Germany
Date: 1758-1767
CMV: cmv37451