Editing Catulle Mendès (section)

===For theatre===
[[File:Bernhardt-La-Vierge-d'Avila-1906.jpg|thumb|[[Sarah Bernhardt]] as [[Teresa of Ávila|St. Theresa]] in ''La Vierge d'Avila'' (1906)]]
* ''La Part du roi'' (1872), a one-act verse comedy
* ''Les Frères d'armes'' (1873), drama
* ''Justice'' (1877), in three acts, characterized by a hostile critic as a hymn in praise of suicide
* ''Le Capitaine Fracasse'' (1878), libretto of a light opera, based on [[Théophile Gautier]]'s novel
* ''[[Gwendoline (opera)|Gwendoline]]'' (1886) and ''[[Briséïs]]'' (first performed 1897), for the music of [[Emmanuel Chabrier|Chabrier]]
* ''La Femme de Tabarin'' (1887)
* ''[[Isoline (opera)|Isoline]]'' (1888), for the music of [[André Messager|Messager]]
* ''Le Collier de Saphirs'' (1891), Pantomime in two tableaux, music by [[Gabriel Pierné]]
* ''Le Docteur Blanc'' (1893), Mimodrame Fantastique in one act, music by Gabriel Pierné
* ''Médée'' (1898), in three acts and in verse
* ''La Reine Fiammette'' (1898), a ''conte dramatique'' in six acts and in verse, set in Renaissance Italy, later set to music by [[Xavier Leroux]], for which see: ''[[La reine Fiammette]]''
* ''[[Le Cygne (ballet)|Le Cygne]]'' (1899), for the music of [[Charles Lecocq|Lecocq]]
* ''La Carmélite'' (1902), for the music of [[Reynaldo Hahn]]
* ''Le Fils de l'étoile'' (1904), the hero of which is [[Simon bar Kokhba|Bar Kokhba]], the Syrian pseudo-Messiah, for the music of [[Camille Erlanger]]
* ''Scarron'' (1905)
* [[Ariane (Massenet)|''Ariane'']] (1906) and [[Bacchus (opera)|''Bacchus'']] (1909), for the music of [[Massenet]]
* ''Glatigny'' (1906)
* ''La Vierge d'Avila'' (1906), for [[Sarah Bernhardt]]

In the same year, Catulle Mendès wrote in ''[[Le Figaro]]'' that it was after reading [[Arthur de Gobineau|Gobineau]]'s ''Les Religions et les Philosophies dans d´Asie centrale'' (''The religions and philosophies of central Asia'') that he had the idea to write a drama about the first woman disciple of the Báb: the Persian erudite and illustrious poet [[Táhirih|Tahéreh]].<ref>"À La Hauteur" Isma Forghani {{ISBN|978-2-343-17990-2}} l´Harmattan</ref>