| 词条 | Sophonisbe (tragedy) |
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ActionThe action takes places in a hall of the palace of Cirta at the time if the Second Punic War. Sophonisbe, daughter of Asdrubal (Hasdrubal) is married to king Siphax (Syphax) of Numidia. Her former fiancé Massinisse (Massinissa) defeats and kills Siphax with the help of the Romans and wants to marry Sophonisbe; Scipion (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus) however wants her sent to Rome. Massinisse therefore kills both Sophonisbe and himself.[2] Literary sourcesThe material for the plot derives from accounts by Titus Livius, Polybius and Appian, which had already been adapted into stage plays by a number of writers including Gian Giorgio Trissino (1514), Jean Mairet (1629), Pierre Corneille (1663) and Nathaniel Lee (1675). Analysis of the dramatic structure and the verse indicates that Voltaire drew on a number of earlier version of the story while crafting his own.[3] Contemporary receptionVoltaire succeeded in having the play premiered at the Comédie-Française in 15 January 1774 but there were only four performances before it was taken off the stage.[3] The failure of both this and his other play Don Pèdre, roi de Castille depressed him, and he took a break from writing tragedies until 1777, when he wrote Irène and Agathocle.[4] Printed editionVoltaire had arranged the printing of the work in late 1769 with the widow Duchesne in Paris. Publication followed at the end of that year, carrying the date 1770. The work was published with the title Sophonisbe, Tragédie de Mairet, reparée à neuf, Veuve Duchesne, Paris, 1770.[2] Voltaire added an explanatory preface in which he claimed that Mairet's work had been adapted by a certain Jean-Baptiste Lantin, who had died fifty years previously, but this is certainly spurious.[5] It may be that Voltaire was uncertain about how the theatre-going public would respond to the play, and wished to distance himself to some degree from his own creation.[6] External links
References1. ^{{cite web |title=age:Voltaire - Œuvres complètes Garnier tome7.djvu/45 |url=https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Voltaire_-_%C5%92uvres_compl%C3%A8tes_Garnier_tome7.djvu/45 |website=fr.wikisource.org |publisher=Wikisource |accessdate=1 November 2018}} 2. ^1 Vgl. Siegfried Detemple: Sophonisbe, in: Voltaire: Die Werke. Katalog zum 300. Geburtstag. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1994, pp.220f. 3. ^{{cite thesis |last=Hageman |first=Marjolein |date=2010 |title=La Réception du théâtre de Voltaire dans les Provinces-Unies au XVIIIème siècle |type=PhD |page=161 |publisher=Universiteit Leiden |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/15946/Th%E8se+compl%E8te+Leyde+revue+bis.pdf;jsessionid=092158515F6361A077A8031CFE59043C?sequence=4 |access-date=}} 4. ^Theodore Besterman: Exil (1773–1775), in: Voltaire, Winkler, München, 1971, p.441 5. ^{{cite book |last1=Bengesco |first1=Georges |title=Voltaire: Bibliographie de ses Oeuvres |date=1882 |publisher=Rouveyre et G. Blond |location=Paris |page=77 |url=https://doc.rero.ch/record/10675/files/Bibliographie_Voltaire_Bengesco_volume1.pdf |accessdate=1 November 2018}} 6. ^1 {{cite web |last1=Malone Feige |first1=Camilla |title=Genesis and sources of Voltaire's "Sophonisbe" |url=http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll39/id/281023|website=digitallibrary.usc.edu |publisher=USC Digital Library |accessdate=1 November 2018}} 5 : Voltaire|Plays by Voltaire|Tragedy plays|1774 in France|1774 plays |
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