Frédégonde et Brunehaut

play by Lemercier

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In Népomucène Lemercier
…of his later plays was Frédégonde et Brunehaut (1821), a “regular” tragedy in which he claimed to portray, from early French history, a modern equivalent of the classic house-of-Atreus theme. Most of his plays were helped by the acting of the great tragedian François-Joseph Talma. Lemercier also wrote a number…
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