Sapho (Daudet play)

Sapho is a play in five acts by French playwrights Alphonse Daudet and Adolphe Belot based upon the 1884 novel of the same name by Daudet. It was presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase and opened on December 18, 1885.

Sapho was performed on the farewell American tour of Sarah Bernhardt. The play entered the repertoire of the Comédie-Française in 1912.

Translated into English

• Sappho: A Play in Five Acts (1895; translation by Elizabeth Beall Ginty)

References

• Bordeaux, Henry (1913). La vie au théâtre, Vol. 3. Paris: Plon-Nourrit.
• Gilbert, Pierre (1918). La forêt des Cippes: essais de critique, Vol. 2. Paris: E. Champion.
• Johnson, T. (1886). "Paris at the Play," The Theatre, Vol. VII, pp. 17–23.
• Mason, Hamilton (1966). French Theatre in New York. New York: AMS Press.
• Saylor, Guy Rufus (1940). Alphonse Daudet as a Dramatist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.