Editing Voltaire (section)

=== Plays ===
Voltaire wrote between fifty and sixty plays ([[tragedy|tragedies]]), including a few unfinished ones.<ref>Dates of the first performance, unless otherwise noted. Garreau, Joseph E. (1984). "Voltaire", vol. 5, pp. 113–17, in ''McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama'', Stanley Hochman, editor in chief. New York: McGraw-Hill. {{ISBN|978-0-07-079169-5}}.</ref> Among them are:
* ''[[Oedipus (Voltaire play)|Œdipe]]'' (1717)
* ''[[Artémire (tragedy)|Artémire]]'' (1720)
* ''[[Hérode et Mariamne|Mariamne]]'' (1724)
* ''[[Brutus (tragedy)|Brutus]]'' (1730)
* ''[[Ériphyle (tragedy)|Éryphile]]'' (1732)
* ''[[Zaïre (play)|Zaïre]]'' (1732), inspiration for ''[[Zaira (opera)|Zaira]]'', opera by [[Vincenzo Bellini]] (1829)
* ''Alzire, ou les Américains'' (1736), inspiration for ''[[Alzira (opera)|Alzira]]'', opera by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] (1845)
* ''Zulima'' (1740)<ref>{{cite web |date=27 July 2018 |title=Voltaire |url=https://history-biography.com/voltaire/ |access-date=3 October 2019 |website=History and biography}}</ref>
* ''[[Mahomet (play)|Mahomet]]'' (1741)
* ''[[Mérope]]'' (1743)
* ''[[La princesse de Navarre]]'' (1745)
* ''[[Sémiramis (tragedy)|Sémiramis]]'' (1748), inspiration for ''[[Semiramide]]'', opera by [[Gioachino Rossini]] (1823)
* ''[[Nanine]]'' (1749)
[[File:Voltaire-5.jpg|alt=First page to volume 19 of Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Nouvelle édition (1818)|thumb|246x246px|First page to volume 19 of ''Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Nouvelle édition'' (1818)]]
* ''[[L'Orphelin de la Chine]]'' (1755)<ref name="liu53">{{Cite journal |last=Liu |first=Wu-Chi |year=1953 |title=The Original Orphan of China |journal=Comparative Literature |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=206–07 |doi=10.2307/1768912 |jstor=1768912}}</ref>{{efn|This is an adaptation of the famous Chinese play ''[[The Orphan of Zhao]]'', based on historical events in the [[Spring and Autumn period]].}}
* ''[[Socrates (Voltaire)|Socrate]]'' (published 1759)
* ''[[La Femme qui a Raison]]'' (1759)
* ''[[Tancrède (tragedy)|Tancrède]]'' (1760), inspiration for ''[[Tancredi]]'', opera by [[Gioachino Rossini]] (1813)
* ''[[Don Pèdre, roi de Castille]]'' (1774)
* ''[[Sophonisbe (tragedy)|Sophonisbe]]'' (1774)
* ''[[Irène (tragedy)|Irène]]'' (1778)
* ''[[Agathocle]]'' (1779)