Ajax

Ajax is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with a musical score by T. Bertin de La Doué (see seventeenth-century volume for Bertin). It was mounted for the first time on 20 April 1716, and it enjoyed 27 performances during its first run that ended on 9 June 1716. It was successful in the provinces and was returned to the stage of the Palais-Royal on 16 June 1726, when it ran through the summer until the early part of September. The famous dancer Camargo launched her reputation in this…