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MAIRET, JEAN DE (1604–1686)

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MAIRET, See also:JEAN DE (1604–1686) , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Besancon, and baptized on the loth of May 1604. His own statement that he was born in 1610 has been disproved. He went to See also:Paris to study at the See also:College See also:des Grassins about 1625, in which See also:year he produced his first piece Chriseide et Arimand, followed in 1626 by Sylvie, a " See also:pastoral tragi-See also:comedy." In 1634 appeared his masterpiece, Sophonisbe, which marks, in its observance of the rules, the beginning of the " See also:regular " tragedies. Mairet was one of the bitterest assailants of See also:Corneille in the controversy over The See also:Cid. It was perhaps his See also:jealousy of Corneille that made him give up See also:writing for the See also:stage. He was appointed in 1648 See also:official representative of the Franche-See also:Comte in Paris, but in 1653 he was banished by See also:Mazarin. He was subsequently allowed to return, but in 1668 he retired to Besancon, where he died on the 31st of See also:January 1686. His other plays include Silvanire ou la Morte-vive, published in 1631 with an elaborate See also:preface on the observance of the unities, See also:Les Galanteries du duc d'Orsonne (1632), Virginie (1633), Marc-See also:Antoine (1635), and Le See also:Grand at dernier Solyman (1637). See G. Bizos, Etude sur la See also:vie et les teuvres de Jean de Mairet (1877). Sophonisbe was edited by K. Vollmoller (See also:Heilbronn, 1888), and Silvanire by R.

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Otto (See also:Bamberg, 1890).

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