Proserpine
Subtitle: tragedie en musique, ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changemens de theatre : representée devant sa majesté à Saint Germain en Laye
Contributors: Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688, librettist; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1687
Place of publication: Amsterdam?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Proserpina (Roman deity); Drama; Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Proserpine
Notes: In five acts with prologue; libretto by Quinault after Ovid, Metamorphoses; first performed 3 February 1680. Cf. Grove music online.

Includes engraved frontispiece, printer's device, head- and tail-pieces throughout.

"Acteurs du prologue": p. 5; "Acteurs de la tragedie": p. 13; both include performers.

Date of imprint appears as כICIכCLXXXVII.

Last p. blank.

"Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris": place of publication from Schmidt.

Not in Sonneck.

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