Editing Alcestis (section)

== Appearance in Other Works ==
{{in popular culture|date=September 2017}}
* [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s long poem, "[[The Legend of Good Women]]" features Alcestis as a character in both versions of the Prologue. In the poem, she is consort to the God of Love and instructs the poet-narrator to tell "a glorious legend / Of Goode wymmen, maydenes and wyves / That weren trewe in lovyng al hire lyves."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chaucer|first=Geoffrey|title=The Legend of Good Women|pages=F-Prologue, ll. 483-5 / G-Prologue, ll. 473-5}}</ref>
*[[John Milton|Milton]]'s famous sonnet, "[[Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint]]", c. 1650, alludes to the myth, with the speaker of the poem dreaming of his dead wife being brought to him "like Alcestis". 
* [[Jean-Baptiste Lully|Lully]] wrote an [[Alceste (Lully)|opera]], first performed in 1674, based on the story. 
* [[George Frideric Handel|Händel]] wrote a [[Alceste (Handel)|1750 masque, or semi-opera]], based on this myth.
* [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck]] in 1767 wrote a [[Alceste (Gluck)|significant reform opera]] on the story. 
* [[Anton Schweitzer|Schweitzer]] composed an opera ''[[Alceste (Schweitzer)|Alceste]]'' to a libretto by [[Christoph Martin Wieland|Wieland]], premiered in 1773 in [[Weimar]], as a milestone of German opera.<ref name="Lawrence">{{cite journal
| last = Lawrence
| first = Richard
| url = https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/schweitzer-a-alceste
| title = Schweitzer, A Alceste
| journal = [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]
| date = July 2008
| access-date = 20 July 2017
}}</ref>
* In his poem "Past Ruin'd Ilion", English writer and poet [[Walter Savage Landor]] (1775–1864) wrote the line "Alcestis rises from the shades" as having a double meaning, evoking her rise from Hades while demonstrating the ability of enduring poetry to give her vitality, drawing her into the light from the shadows of historical oblivion.
* Irish poet and playwright [[John Todhunter]] wrote a play called ''Alcestis: A Dramatic Poem'' that was published in 1879.