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The Death of Pompey (La Mort de Pompée) is a tragedy by the French playwright Pierre Corneille on the death of Pompey the Great. It premiered in 1642, with Julius Caesar played by Molière. Like many of Corneille's plays, it is noted for the high tones of its heroine, Cornelia, who admits that her enemy is noble and generous but warns him when he releases her that she will continue to seek his death.[1]
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- ^ Louis Auchincloss, False Dawn p 4 ISBN 0-385-18021-7
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Pompey the Great· A tragedy. As it was acted by the Servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Translated out of French by certain persons of honour.
London : printed [by William Wilson] for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange, 1664.[4], 54, [4] p. ; 4⁰. Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C6319, Pforzheimer, 1044
A verse translation, by Edmund Waller, the Earl of Dorset, Sir Charles Sedley, Sidney Godolphin and perhaps others, of: Pierre Corneille, ‘La mort de Pompée.’ A translation by Katherine Philips had been printed in London and Dublin in 1663.PL 1604.2 — bound with and behind Wilson, John ‘Andronicus Commenius, A Tragedy’. (1664)