Editing Crispus (section)

==In literature==
Crispus became a popular tragic hero after the success of Bernardino Stefonio's neo-Latin [[tragedy]] ''Crispus'', which was performed at the [[Roman College|Jesuit Collegio Romano]] in 1597. Closely modelled on [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]'s ''[[Phaedra (Seneca)|Phaedra]]'', this became a model of [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] tragedy and one of the main bases for Alessandro Donati's 1631 ''Ars poetica Alexandri Donati Senensis e Societate Iesu''<ref> https://books.google.com/books/about/Ars_poetica_Alexandri_Donati_Senensis_e.html?id=apHn_2hMhZ4C </ref> and Tarquinio Galluzzi's 1633 ''Defense of Crispus''. The play was adapted for the French stage by [[François de Grenaille]] as ''L'Innocent malhereux'' (1639) and by [[François Tristan l'Hermite|Tristan l'Hermite]] as ''La Morte de Chrispe ou les maleurs du grand Constantine'' (1645). It was performed as an opera in Rome (1720) and London (1721), where it was entitled, ''Crispo: drama'',<ref>Marc Fumaroli, ''Heros et orateurs. Rhetoriques et dramaturgie corneliennes'', Geneva: Droz, 1996</ref> not to mention [[Donizetti]]'s 1832 opera ''[[Fausta (opera)|Fausta]]''. The story is also retold and embellished in chapter 31 of [[Sir Walter Scott]]'s novel ''[[Count Robert of Paris]]''. When [[Evelyn Waugh]] reworks the story in his novel ''[[Helena (Waugh novel)|Helena]]'' (1950), Crispus is innocent.