at the court when performed in 1556. Select list of authors and works of humanist tragedy: Théodore de Bèze Abraham sacrifiant (1550) Étienne Jodelle Cléopâtre captive (1553) Didon se sacrifiant (date unknown) Mellin de Saint-Gelais La Sophonisbe (performed 1556) - translation of the Italian play (1524) by Gian Giorgio Trissino Jacques Grévin Jules César (1560) - imitated from the Latin of Marc Antoine Muret Jean de la Taille Saül, le furieux (1563–1572) Robert Garnier Porcie (published 1568, acted in 1573), Cornélie (acted in 1573 and published in 1574) Hippolyte (acted in 1573 and published in 1574) Marc-Antoine (1578) La Troade (1579) Antigone (1580) Les Juives (1583) Nicolas de Montreux Tragédie du jeune Cyrus (1581) Isabelle (1594) Cléopâtre (1594) Sophonisbe (1601) (See the playwrights Antoine de Montchrestien, Alexandre Hardy and Jean de Schelandre for tragedy around 1600-1610.) Alongside tragedy, European humanists also adapted the ancient comedic tradition and as early as the 15th century, Renaissance Italy had developed a form of humanist Latin comedy. Although the ancients had been less theoretical about the comedic form, the humanists used the precepts of Aelius Donatus (4th century AD), Horace, Aristotle and the works of Terence to elaborate a set of rules: comedy should seek to correct vice by showing the truth; there should be a happy ending; comedy uses a lower style of language than tragedy; comedy does not paint the great events of states and leaders, but the private lives of people, and its principle subject is love. Although some French authors kept close to the ancient models (Pierre de Ronsard translated a part of Aristophanes's "Plutus" at college), on the whole the French comedic tradition shows a great deal of borrowing from all sources: medieval farce (which continued to be immensely popular throughout the century), the short story, Italian humanist comedies and "La Celestina" (by Fernando de Rojas). Select list of authors and works of Renaissance comedy: Étienne Jodelle L'Eugène (1552) – a comedy in five acts Jacques Grévin Les Ébahis (1560) Jean Antoine de Baïf L'Eunuque (1565), a version of Terence's Eunuchus Le Brave (1567) – a version of Plautus's Miles gloriosus Jean de la Taille Les Corrivaus (published in 1573) – an imitation of Boccaccio and other Italians Pierre de Larivey – son of an Italian, Larivey was an important adapter of the Italian comedy. Le Laquais (1579) La Vefve (1579) Les Esprits (1579) Le Morfondu (1579) Les Jaloux