TRISTAN L'HERMITE, François - La Mort de Chrispe, ou les mal - Lot 350

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TRISTAN L'HERMITE, François - La Mort de Chrispe, ou les mal - Lot 350
TRISTAN L'HERMITE, François - La Mort de Chrispe, ou les malheurs domestiques du grand Constantin. Paris, Cardin Besongne, 1645. In-4, front. (5) ff., 120 pp. front. signed Stella engraved by Daret, some light spotting, front endpaper slightly faded, contemporary soft vellum. TCH V 922. First edition. The play was performed in spring 1645 at the Jeu de Paume de la Croix-Noire by Molière's troupe. A tragedy that anticipates Racine's Phèdre (1677). Empress Faustus, Constantine's second wife, has fallen passionately in love with the handsome Crispus, whom the emperor has had by his first wife, Minervine; but the young man repulses her with horror, and declares that "if she persists in this infamous will, he will warn the emperor"; Driven by anger and fear, Faustus went to Constantine to complain that Crispe had tried to do her violence, and the emperor, in furious resentment of the outrage, had his son poisoned during a banquet (V. M. Bernardin, p. 451).
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