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Pelléas and Mélisande (French: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck. It's about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters and was first performed in 1893.
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- Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
- While hunting in the forest, Prince Golaud encounters the mysterious Mélisande, a fragile and frightened girl. He soon marries Mélisande without learning anything more about her.
- Pelléas and Mélisande are heading to the Blind Men's Well. Mélisande palys with the ring offered by Golaud and loses it in the water. At the same time, Golaud falls from his horse.
- In old King Arkel's castle, Golaud encounters his half brother Pelléas. Mélisande and Pelléas are instantly attracted to each other. Is this a childish game?
- Golaud’s jealousy and anger get the better of him. As Pelléas says goodbye to Mélisande, the two finally confess their love for each other and kiss.
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Pelléas et Mélisande, play in five acts by Maurice Maeterlinck, published in French in 1892 and produced in 1893, that is considered one of the masterpieces of French Symbolist drama. Set in an imaginary land in medieval times, it centres on the tragic love of Pelléas for Mélisande, who is married.
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Synopsis. Golaud finds Mélisande by a stream in the woods. She has lost her crown in the water but does not wish to retrieve it. They marry, and she instantly wins the favor of Arkël, Golaud's grandfather and king of Allemonde, who is ill. She begins to be drawn to Pelléas, Golaud's brother.
