La princesse d'Elide
By: comedie du Sieur Molliere ; ensemble Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée : course de bague, collation ornée de machines, meslée de danse & de musique, Ballet du palais d'Alcine, feu d'artifice, et autres festes galantes de Versailles
Series: French books 1601-1700
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1684
Place of publication: [Amsterdam?], suivant la copie imprimée a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Festivals; Early works to 1800; French drama (Comedy); Ballets; Librettos; Court and courtiers; History
Other titles: Plaisirs de L'île enchantée (Choreographic work)
Work titles: Plaisirs de l'île enchantée Princesse d'Elide Libretto
Notes: Libretto, with descriptions of the event, for days 1-3 of a court entertainment titled Les plaisirs de l'île enchantée.

Laudatory verses recited on day 1 by I. Benserade; text of Princesse d'Élide, performed on day 2, by Molière; music (not printed here) for the ballet, Palais d'Alcine, performed on day 3, by J.B. Lully; See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWW site, 3 June 2009), M.-F. Christout, Le ballet de cour de Louis XIV, 1643-1672, p. 111-112, 138, 265; and C. I. Silin, Benserade and his ballets de cour.

The entire festival was performed at Versailles, 7-13 May 1664.

Signatures: A-D¹² E⁶.

Acteurs and singers named throughout text for the 1st day festivities; "Noms des Acteurs de la Comedie": p. 30, includes performers for La Princesse d'Elide; dancers for the ballet, Le Palais d'Alcine, named throughout the scenario on p. 100-102.