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Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532 – July 1573), French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris of a noble family.[1]

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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 Reims in 1552. Jodelle himself took the title role, and the cast included his friends Remy Belleau and Jean Bastier de La Péruse, in honour of the play's success the friends organized a little etc. at Arcueil when a goat garlanded with flowers was led in procession and presented to the author—a ceremony exaggerated by the enemies of the Ronsardists into a renewal of the pagan rites of the worship of Bacchus.[1]

Jodelle wrote two other plays. Eugène, a comedy satirizing the superior clergy, had less success than it deserved. Its preface poured scorn on Jodelle's predecessors in comedy, but in reality his own methods are not so very different from theirs. Didon se sacrifiant, a tragedy which follows Virgil's narrative, appears never to have been represented. Jodelle died in poverty in July 1573. His works were collected the year after his death by Charles de la Mothe. They include a quantity of miscellaneous verse dating chiefly from Jodelle's youth. The intrinsic value of his tragedies is small. Cléopâtre is lyric rather than dramatic. Throughout the five acts of the piece nothing actually happens. The death of Antony is announced by his ghost in the first act; the story of Cleopatra's suicide is related, but not represented, in the fifth. Each act is terminated by a chorus which moralizes on such subjects as the inconstancy of fortune and the judgments of heaven on human pride. But the play was the starting-point of French classical tragedy, and was soon followed by the Médée (1553) of Jean Bastier de La Péruse and the Aman (1561) of André de Rivaudeau [fr]. Jodelle was a rapid worker, but idle and fond of dissipation. His friend Ronsard said that his published poems gave no adequate idea of his powers.[1]

Jodelle's works are collected (1868) in the Pléiade française of Charles Marty-Laveaux. The prefatory notice gives full information of the sources of Jodelle's biography, and La Mothe's criticism is reprinted in its entirety.[1]

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- [en] Étienne Jodelle

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[es] Étienne Jodelle

Étienne Jodelle (París, 1532 - julio de 1573) fue un poeta y dramaturgo francés. Miembro de la La Pléyade, se esforzó por revitalizar los principios del teatro antiguo durante el Renacimiento. Fue el primero en introducir el verso alejandrino, en particular con Cleopatra cautiva (1553), la primera "tragedia a la antigua", así como Eugenio (1552) en la comedia, reconocido como precursor del teatro que nació en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI, un período convulso que vio sus incertidumbres plasmadas en su obra[1]·.[2]

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[fr] Étienne Jodelle

Étienne Jodelle est un poète et dramaturge français né en 1532 et mort en juillet de 1573 à Paris.

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[ru] Жодель, Этьен

Этьен Жодель (фр. Étienne Jodelle; 1532, Париж — июль 1573[1], Париж) — французский поэт и драматург, член объединения «Плеяда».

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