Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (January 13, 1674 ? June 17, 1762) was a French poet and tragedian.

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He was born in Dijon, where his father, Melchior Jolyot, was notary-royal. Having been educated at the Jesuit school in the town, and afterwards at the Collège Mazarin. He became an advocate, and was placed in the office of a lawyer named Prieur at Paris. With the encouragement of his master, son of an old friend of Scarron's, he produced a Mort des enfants de Brutus, which was never produced on the stage. In 1705 he succeeded with Idomnée; in 1707 his Atrée et Thyeste was repeatedly acted at court; Electre appeared in 1709; and in 1711 he produced his finest play, Rhadamiste et Zénobie, which is his masterpiece and ran for a long period, although the plot is so complicated as to be almost incomprehensible. But his Xerxes (1714) was only performed once, and his Sémiramis (1717) was an absolute failure.

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