Le mariage forcé
Subtitle: ballet du Roy : dansé par sa Majesté, le 29. jour de ianvier 1664
Publisher: Par Robert Ballard ...
Published: 1664
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre; spa
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Ballets; Scenarios
Notes: Scenario for a comédie-ballet in 8 entrées.

Text by Molière and J.B. Lully; music composed by Lully; first performed at the Louvre, Paris, 29 January 1664. See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWW site, 6 April 2009).

Molière afterwards arranged the play in one act and omitted the ballet (published in 1668). See Guibert, A.J. Molière, p. 230.

Signatures: A-C².

Title-page vignette; head- and tail-pieces.

Includes texts to 2 recits and the "Concert espagnol."

"Les acteurs de la comedie": p. [2]; includes performers, other performers named throughout text.

Christout, M.F. Ballet de cour de Louis XIV, p. 265

Jacob, P.L. Bibliographie molièresque, 190

Chiefly in French; 1 verse in Spanish.

Bookmark of former owner on front pastedown: Bibliothèque Jean Meyer.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Bound in 19th-century red morocco; spine gilt with raised bands; edges gilt.