Charles Beys
Charles Beys (died 26 September 1659) was a French poet and playwright. He wrote of himself that "did not love work or glory too much", whilst other contemporaries stated his poetry writing was "commonly easy, natural, even exact". He is notable as the first French playwright to show an insane asylum on stage.
Charles Beys
- Born
- 1610 · Paris.
- Died
- 1659 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · playwright · writer
- Languages
- French
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Charles Beys (died 26 September 1659) was a French poet and playwright. He wrote of himself that "did not love work or glory too much", whilst other contemporaries stated his poetry writing was "commonly easy, natural, even exact". He is notable as the first French playwright to show an insane asylum on stage.
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Life
Life
He was baptised on 21 January 1610 at the église Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné in Paris.
Works
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• Le Jaloux sans sujet, tragi-comedie de Beys, Paris, 1636. • L'Hospital des fous, tragi-comedie de Beys, Paris, 1636. Réédition Toussaint Quinet, «Sur l'imprimé», Paris, 1638, et sous le titre L'Ospital (sic) des fous, Paris, 1639. • Celine, ou Les Freres rivaux. Tragi-comédie de Beys, Paris, Toussaint Quinet, 1637. Réédition, Paris, 1640, sous le titre Les Freres rivaux. • Les Triomphes de Louis le Juste, XIII. du nom, Roy de France et de Navarre, Paris, Antoine Estienne, 1649. • Les Œuvres poetiques de Beys, Paris, Toussaint Quinet, 1651. • Stances sur le depart de Monseigneur le premier President, garde des Seaux (sic) de France, Paris, Antoine Estienne, 1652. • Les Illustres fous, comedie de Beys, Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1653 (nouvelle version de L'Hospital des fous). Rééd: Les Illustres Fous of Charles de Beys, ed. by Merle I. Protzman, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1942. • Le Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergeres, dédié au Roy, mis en musique par De la Guerre, organiste de Sa Majesté en sa Saincte Chapelle du Palais à Paris, Paris, Charles Chenault, 1654. • Les Plaisirs troublez. Mascarade. Dansée devant le Roy par Monsieur le Duc de Guise. Paris, Robert Ballard, 1657.
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• Le Gouvernement present, ou Eloge de son Eminence. Satyre ou la Miliade, sans lieu ni date [1636]. From the 18th century onwards bibliographers attributed two comedies and a collection of burlesque verses to Beys despite no documents from Beys' own time stating he wrote them: • L'Amant liberal. Tragi-comedie, Paris, Toussaint Quinet,1637. • La Comedie de chansons, Paris, Toussaint Quinet, 1640. • Les Odes d'Horace en vers burlesques, Paris, Toussaint Quinet, 1653 [achevé d'imprimer daté du 17 avril 1652]. La même édition chez Thomas Jolly, sous la date de 1652, et à Leyde (Hollande), chez Jean Sambix, sous la date de 1653. Réédition par André Lebois, Avignon, Édouard Aubanel, 1963.
External links (in French)
External links (in French)
• Céline ou Les Frères rivaux on Théâtre classique. • Les Illustres fous on Gallica. • La Comédie de chansons on Gallica.
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- “Charles Beys”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- L'HOSPITAL DES FOUS OF CHARLES BEYS: THE MADMAN AND THE ACTOR1 <sup>1</sup>, French Studies, 1982
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