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- LUCRECE
IIcurious to relate, in Germany. One of Hans Sachs'
dramas bears the title < Ein schon spil von der geschicht der
Edlin Romerin Lucretia ' (Strassburg, iffo). In France
there was performed at the Court at Gaillon, in the presence
of the king, Charles IX, on September 29, i ^66^ a short tragedy
in alexandrines (with choruses in other metres) by one Nicolas
Filleul of Rouen, which bore the title : ' Lucrece, Tragedie
avec des Choeurs'.' The plot follows the classical lines.
But Lucrece's nurse, an original character, is introduced to
offer her mistress consolation and to dissuade her from self-
slaughter. In Spain the tale was equally familiar, and about
15-90 a celebrated poet, Don Juan de Arguijo, after writing of
Venus and Adonis, summed up the current knowledge in the
Peninsula concerning Lucrece in an effective sonnet, which is
often quoted in anthologies of Spanish poetry.
Meanwhile the story was running its course anew in The tale's
popular English literature. In the same year as the French Eb"than"
tragedy of Lucrece was produced at Gaillon, William Painter England,
included a paraphrase of Livy's version in his massive collec-
tion ofpopular fiction entitled The Palace of Pleasure. In the
years that immediately followed, the tale was made the
subject of at least two ballads, which have not survived.
In 15-^8 there was licensed to John Allde, by the Stationers'
Company's Register (cf i. 3 79), ' a ballet called « The grevious
complaynt of Lucrece",' and in 1^70 there was licensed
to James Roberts <■A ballad of the Death of Lucryssia '
(i. 4i<^). A third ballad of Lucrece, of which no copy is
now known, was, according to Warton, printed in 1^76.
' This piece is printed in a rare volume called Les Theatres de Gaillon.
A French tragedy by the well-known dramatist, Alexandre Hardy, written
a little later, bears the title ' Lucrece, ou I'adulteur puni ', but this play docs
not deal with the story of the Roman matron, but with an imaginary adulteress
of Spain. Hardy's tragedy was first published in 1616.B 2
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