Amphitryon 38

Amphitryon 38
Amphitryon 38 performance at Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater in Kraków, 1948
Written by	Jean Giraudoux
Characters	Amphitryon, Alcmene, Jupiter, Mercury, Leda
Date premiered	8 November 1929
Place premiered	Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris
Original language	French
Subject	The god Jupiter intrudes into the faithful marriage of two mortals
Genre	Drama
Setting	Mythological ancient Greece

Amphitryon 38 is a play written in 1929 by the French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told on stage previously.