, published as a three-act comedy in prose, was first performed as a

on 18 July 1668, during the

. At the

, the French court was celebrating the triumph of Louis XIV over the Spanish at the Franche-Comté, marking the end of the War of Devolution, and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in May 1668. The first public performance of the play took place in Paris on 9 November 1668, and from then onwards the work was performed without the musical elements of the

. The

of the

was published in Paris in 1668 by Ballard, while the text of Molière’s play was published the following year by Jean Ribou. While

is not regarded as one of Molière’s major…

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Citation: Townshend, Sarah. "George Dandin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 January 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14349, accessed 24 November 2024.]