La Princesse d'Élide

La Princesse d'Élide (The Princess of Elis) is a 1664 French comic play ("comédie galante") in 5 acts in verse and prose by Molière, who based it on Agustin Moreto y Cabaña's 1654 Spanish play El desdén con el desdén (Scorn for Scorn) but moved the location to Elis in Greece. The play includes six intermèdes with verses by Molière and music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

It was first performed on 8 May 1664 as part of Louis XIV's multi-day royal festival Les Plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée at Versailles and revived in July four times for the court at the Palace of Fontainebleau and on 9 November for public performances at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris, where it ran until 4 January 1665, its twenty-fifth representation and the last by the troupe of Molière.

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