Scientific editor:Ternaux (Jean-Claude) General directors:Buzon (Christine de), Ternaux (Jean-Claude)
Abstract: With the character Didon, Étienne Jodelle shows the fall of a tragic heroine and puts a fashionable subject on the French stage. However, as a “great libertine,” he rejects the religiosity of his Latin source and denounces the fart of religion in this epic tragedy.