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King René's Daughter
Play written by Henrik Hertz / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kong Renés Datter (King René’s Daughter) is a Danish verse drama written in 1845 by Henrik Hertz. It is a fictional account of the early life of Yolande of Lorraine, daughter of René of Anjou, in which she is depicted as a beautiful blind sixteen-year-old princess who lives in a protected garden paradise. The play was highly popular in the 19th century. It was translated into many languages, copied, parodied and adapted. The Russian adaptation by Vladimir Zotov was used as the basis for the 1892 opera Iolanta, written by Tchaikovsky, with libretto by his brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky.[1]
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![]() An 1876 Butter sculpture by Caroline S. Brooks of "The Dreaming Iolanthe", depicting the blind Iolanthe, as portrayed in King René's Daughter | |
Written by | Henrik Hertz |
Characters | Iolanthe Tristan, Count Vaudement René of Anjou Geoffrey Almerick Ebn Jahia Bertrand Martha |
Date premiered | 1845 |
Original language | Danish |
Subject | Fictionalised account of the marriage of Iolanda, daughter of René of Anjou and Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont |
Genre | romance |
Setting | Medieval Provence |
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The name of the central character is given as "Iolanthe" in the original and in early English versions.