Pelléas and Mélisande

Pelléas and Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande)

    Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

    First Performance: 1893, Paris

    Published: 1892

    First English Translation: 1896

    Genre: Fairy tale in 5 acts; French prose

    Setting: Castle and environs, medieval period

    Cast: 6m, 2f, extras

While out hunting, Prince Golaud encounters a beautiful girl, Mélisande, weeping by a spring. Her crown lies at the bottom of the spring, but she will not allow Golaud to retrieve it. Golaud marries Mélisande and they come to his grandfather King Arkel's palace in Allemonde, where they are welcomed, especially by Pelléas, Golaud's half-brother, who shares an affinity with Golaud's child-wife. Together at the Fountain of the Blind, Mélisande drops her wedding ring into its depths, which arouses Golaud's suspicions. When...

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