Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . aiden play, (1705), which this time was received and played with some success. was followed by (1707), a playthat put Crebillon in the very first rank of tragic poets. Called backto his native place by his fathers death, and detained there along time by a family lawsuit, he brought back from the country histhird tragedy, (1708), which was as much admired as thepreceding one. < Rhadamiste et Zenobie, Crebillons masterpiece,appeared in 1711. It formed part of the repertoire of the ComedieFran^aise up to the year 1829. played in 1714
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . aiden play, (1705), which this time was received and played with some success. was followed by (1707), a playthat put Crebillon in the very first rank of tragic poets. Called backto his native place by his fathers death, and detained there along time by a family lawsuit, he brought back from the country histhird tragedy, (1708), which was as much admired as thepreceding one. < Rhadamiste et Zenobie, Crebillons masterpiece,appeared in 1711. It formed part of the repertoire of the ComedieFran^aise up to the year 1829. played in 1714, met withflat failure; ^Semiramis (1717) fared somewhat better. Disgusted. Crebillon 4j68 prosper jolyot crebillon with the poor success of his last two tragedies, it was nine yearsbefore Crebillon wrote again for the stage. appeared in1726, and remained for a long time on the play-bills. Of his last twotragedies <Catilina^ (1748) was for its author a renewal of success,whilst <Le Triumvirat,* written by Crebillon in his eightieth year,contains here and there fine passages. Crebillon was elected to the French Academy in 1731. He heldseveral offices during life. He was first receiver of fines, then royalcensor, and lastly kings librarian; but neither from these variousemployments nor from his plays did he derive much profit. Themost prosperous epoch of his existence seems to have been aboutthe year 1715, during the brilliant but corrupt time of the Rdgence;part of his life was spent in actual penury, and we find himfifteen years later living in a poor quarter of the capital, having forsole companions of his misery a lot of dogs and cats
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