OEDIPE A COLONE, traduction an quatre actes et en vers de Georges Rivollet.

SEE Oedipe a Colone.

SEE Oedipe a Colone.

OEDIPE A COLONE, traduction an quatre actes et en vers de Georges Rivollet.

SEE Oedipe a Colone.

SEE Oedipe a Colone.

" The players were at that time rehearsing the tragedy of OEdipe, which was played on the 18th of November, 1718, with great success.

The Prince de Conti, who, a month or two before, had written an ode in which he placed the author of Oedipe side by side with the authors of Le Cid and Phèdre, now remarked, with a shrug of the shoulders, that 'ces coups de bâtons étaient bien reçus et mal donnés.'

As nearly every writer of the century had produced his tragedy, not to mention the immediate friends of Marivaux, Fontenelle with his Aspar and La Motte with his Oedipe and Romulus, it is not strange that Marivaux felt tempted to try his wings in this upper sphere.