Alceste

"Ce rire amer," marked by Boileau in the 138 actor's Alceste, was only his stage assumption for that character.

In the summer of the year 18—, I was the only passenger on board the merchantman, Alceste, which was bound to the Brazils.

Fresh adaptations of "Orpheus and Eurydice" and of "Alceste" were produced.

I would erect, at my own expense, a monument to Molière if Alceste would make my love take this form.

The curtain was being slowly drawn up on the second act, and disclosed Alceste in wrathful conversation with Celimene.