Kong Renés Datter (
King René’s Daughter) is a
Danish verse drama written in 1845 by
Henrik Hertz. It is a fictional account of the early life of
Yolande of Lorraine, daughter of
René of Anjou, in which she is depicted as a beautiful blind sixteen-year-old princess who lives in a protected garden paradise. The play was highly popular in the 19th century. It was translated into many languages, copied, parodied and adapted. The Russian adaptation by Vladimir Zotov was used as the basis for the 1892 opera
Iolanta, written by
Tchaikovsky, with libretto by his brother
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky.