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Étienne Jodelle
Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532 – July 1573), French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris of a noble family.
He attached himself to the poetic circle of the Pléiade and proceeded to apply the principles of the reformers to dramatic composition. Jodelle aimed at creating a classical drama that should be in every respect different from the moralities and "soties" that then occupied the French stage, his first play, "Cléopâtre captive", was represented before the court at the hôtel de
Cléopâtre captive
Cléopâtre captive is a five-act tragedy by Étienne Jodelle, presented on 9 February 1553, first before the King Henri II of France in the Hôtel de Reims, then at the Collège de Boncourt. The play is part of the posthumous collection "Les Œuvres et meslanges poetiques d'Estienne Jodelle Sieur du Lymodin" (1574). Remy Belleau played the role of Cleopatra, Jean Bastier de La Péruse, that of Octavian. It was the first "", and Jodelle composed it in parallel with the first