La Princesse lointaine, de la lyrique à la scène

In writing La Princesse lointaine for Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand uses the figure of the troubadour Jaufré Rudel who, according to the legend imposed by his Vida, died at the gates of Tripoli, in the arms of the Lady for whom he sang his “love from afar.” Yet theatricalizing the original verse in a play implies a dramatization that is missing from the source texts, for which the principle of incarnation is both the cause and the effect.