E-text prepared by Charles Franks, Delphine Lettau, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) PSYCHE. BY MOLIÈRE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE. WITH A SHORT INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. BY CHARLES HERON WALL 'Psyche' is a tragédie-ballet. Molière had sketched the plan, written the prologue, the first act, and the first scenes of the second and third acts, when the King asked him to have the play finished before Lent. Pierre Corneille, then sixty years old, helped him, and wrote the other scenes in a fortnight. Quinault wrote the words of the songs. Molière acted the part of Zephyr. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Jupiter. Venus. Love. Zephyr. Aegiale and Phaëne, two Graces. The King. Psyche. Aglaura. Cidippe. Cleomenes and Agenor, two princes, Psyche's lovers. Lycas, captain of the guards. A River God Two Cupids. Jupiter. Venus. Love. Zephyr. Aegiale Phaëne, The King. Psyche.
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