Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré

Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré (24 June 1752 – 2 March 1832) was a French playwright, librettist, journalist, and translator.

Biography

Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré was born in Dijon, Côte-d'Or. He was secretary of Louis Bonaparte, who made him a councillor of state.[1] In 1783 at the Gaîté, he parodied plays of William Shakespeare, that was adapted by Jean-François Ducis.[2]

Works

1776: La Bonne femme, ou le Phénix (vaudeville, parody of Alceste), (with Pierre-Yves Barré (1749-1832) and Pierre-Antoine-Augustin de Piis (1755-1832))
1777: L'Opéra de province (parody of Armide in two acts and in verse)
1783: Le Roi Lu (parodie du Roi Lir ou Lear, in one act and in verse)
1792: Cécile et Ermancé (opéra comique)
1793: Nice (one-act comédie en vaudeville, in prose, imitation of Stratonice)
1796: Le Retour à Bruxelles (one-act opéra comique)
1796: La Succession (one-act opéra comique), (with Jacques-Marie Deschamps)
1797: Le Pari (divertissement in one acte, en prose et en vaudevilles), (with Pierre-Yves Barré, Jacques-Marie Deschamps, François-Georges Desfontaines (1733-1825), and Jean-Baptiste Radet (1752-1830)
1798: Le portrait de Fielding (one-act comedy)
1799: L'Allarmiste (comédie en vaudeville)
1800: Le gondolier, ou La soirée venitienne (one-act opera), (with Louis-Philippe de Ségur (1753-1830))
1803: Saül (oratorio mis en action)
1803: Le Poète satyrique (one-act comedy, in verse)
1803: Une soirée de deux prisonniers, ou Voltaire et Richelieu (one-act comedy)
1804: Le pavillon du Calife ou Almanzor et Zobéide (opera)
1805: Le Nouveau magasin des modernes (one-act comedy, in prose)
1805: La Prise de Jéricho (oratorio in three parts)
1814: Le laboureur chinois (one-act opera), (with Jacques-Marie Deschamps (1750?-1826), Étienne Morel de Chédeville (1751-1814) and Henri-Montan Berton (1767-1844))
1822: Mémoires sur Garrick et sur Macklin
1822: Mémoires sur Molière, et sur Mme Guérin, sa veuve (notes and commentary)
1827: Œuvres choisies de Dorat

Translations

1793: Le moine by Matthew Lewis
1794: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
1798: Camilla, ou La peinture de la jeunesse by Fanny Burney (1752–1840)
1821: Works by Horace
1825–1827: Histoire d'Angleterre depuis l'invasion de Jules-César jusqu'à la révolution de 1688 by David Hume
1826: A Simple Story, by Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)

References

Thomas, Joseph (1 January 2010). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Cosimo, Inc. p. 754. ISBN 9781616400705. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
Forman, Edward (2010). Historical dictionary of French theater. Bristol: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 105. ISBN 978-0810874510. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

External links

Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré on IdRef

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[1] Thomas, Joseph (1 January 2010). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Cosimo, Inc. p. 754. ISBN 9781616400705. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

[2] Forman, Edward (2010). Historical dictionary of French theater. Bristol: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 105. ISBN 978-0810874510. Retrieved 11 June 2019.