by Moliere
By French playwright, Moliere. The King, who would have nothing but what was magnificent in all that he undertook, wished to give his Court an entertainment that would comprise all that the stage could furnish. To facilitate the execution of so vast an idea, and to link so many different things, his Majesty chose for the subject two rival princes who, in the lovely valley of Tempe, where the Pythian Games were to be celebrated, vied with each other in fêting a young princess and her mother...