Inès de Castro: tragedie is a French Tragedy play written by French playwright Antoine Houdar de la Motte.
Background Inès de Castro was written by Antoine Houdar de la Motte as a pseudo-classical adaptation of an old Portuguese play based on the subject of Inês de Castro.Armitage, J. (1836). The history of Brazil, from ... 1808, to ... 1831. A continuation to Southey's History. United Kingdom: (n.p.).Madame de Sévigné and Her Contemporaries. (1841). United Kingdom: H. Colburn.Burrows, D., Dunhill, R., Harris, J. (2002). Music and Theatre in Handel's World: The Family Papers of James Harris, 1732-1780. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. It was first presented in Paris on 6 April 1723 at the Comédie-Française and became a success on the French stage.Landor, W. S. (1927). The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor: Poems. United Kingdom: Chapman and Hall Limited.
There are many other variations and adaptations of the Inès de Castro story with origins tracing back to António Ferreira's Castro.Ferreira, A. (1987). The Tragedy of Ines de Castro. Indonesia: Universidade de Coimbra. It is claimed that M. de la Motte wrote the tragedy by incorporating powerful emotions for theater. He then enlisted scholars to identify a historical event that aligned with the plot, settling on Inès de Castro's story, which led to the play's title.Anecdotes dramatiques, contenant 1°. Toutes les pieces de théatre, tragédies, comédies, pastorales, drames, opéra, opéra-comiques, parades, proverbes qui ont été joué à Paris ou en Province ... depuis l'origine des spectacles en France jusqu'à l'année 1775, rangés par ordre alphabetiques. 2°. Tous les ouvrages dramatiques qui n'ont été réprésentés sur aucun théatre, mais qui sont imprimés ... 3°. Un recueil de tout ce qu'on a pu rassembler d'anecdotes imprimés ... 4°. Les noms de tous les auteurs, poëtes ou musiciens, qui ont travaillé pour tous nos théatres ... 5°. Un Tableau, accompagné d'anecdotes, des théatres de toutes les Nations. (1775). (n.p.): (n.p.).
De la Motte responded to parodies of his play by defending it in his Troisième discours à l'occasion de la tragédie Inés de Castro (1730).Canepa, N. L. (1997). Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. United Kingdom: Wayne State University Press.
De la Motte's adaptation was later translated into Spanish in 1826 by Manuel Bretón de los Herreros.Ferreira, A. (1987). The Tragedy of Ines de Castro. Indonesia: Universidade de Coimbra.
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