Mahomet second
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Mahomet second is an unfinished tragedy in one act and five scenes in prose, written by French playwright Pierre de Marivaux circa 1733 and first published in the journal Mercure de France in 1747.
Marivaux used to attend the Marquise de Lambert's literary salon with Antoine Houdar de La Motte, another supporter of prose in tragedy. After a talk about versification, he decided to answer empirically by writing Mahomet second, despite the failure a decade before of his Annibal. No-one managed to convince him to complete this tragedy whose topic had already been used by Vivien de Châteaubrun in a play which was performed eleven times at the Comédie-Française in 1714.
Characters
- Ibrahim
- Irène
- Mahomet
- Roxane
- Théodore, Irène's father
- Lascaris, her brother