'Psyche' is a _tragédie-ballet_. Molière had sketched the plan, written the prologue, the first act, and the first scenes of the second and third acts, when the King asked him to have the play finished before Lent. Pierre Corneille, then sixty years old, helped him, and wrote the other scenes in a fortnight. Quinault wrote the words of the songs. JUPITER. VENUS. LOVE. ZEPHYR. AEGIALE _and_ PHAËNE, _two Graces_. THE KING. PSYCHE. AGLAURA. CIDIPPE. CLEOMENES _and_ AGENOR, _two princes_, PSYCHE'S _lovers_. LYCAS, _captain of the guards_. A RIVER GOD TWO CUPIDS.…
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