Thérèse (Voltaire)
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| Title: | Thérèse |
| Genus: | comedy |
| Original language: | French |
| Author: | Voltaire |
| Publishing year: | 1830 |
| Premiere: | not listed |
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Thérèse was a comedy by Voltaire . The piece, written in 1743, was never performed on public stages and has only survived in three short fragments from the first act.
Emergence
Voltaire wrote the comedy Thérèse in 1743. The play was only performed privately. Émilie du Châtelet took on the title role in one of the performances. Contrary to his intention expressed in the letter of July 4, 1743 to Marie Dumesnil , Voltaire never submitted the comedy to the Comedie Francaise . The manuscript was lost. Only a few shorter fragments survived in Voltaire's estate.
Going to press
A first fragment was published in 1830 by Adrien-Jean-Quentin Beuchot at Lefèvre in Paris in the fifth volume of the Oeuvres de Voltaire , also in a separate print. The publicist and Voltaire edition collector Desmond Flower published another eight-page fragment as a facsimile in 1981 .
First editions
- Fragment de Thérèse, 1743 , Paris, Lefèvre, 1830, 8 °, 16 p. Online
- Thérèse: a fragment , For presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, Desmond Flower, 1981, 20 pp.
literature
- Andrew Brown: Calendar of Voltaire's manuscripts , in: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 77, 1970, pp. 11-101.