Corneille Study Guide

Pierre Corneille (6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patrionate of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.—— Wikipedia

The Text

Le Cid. Project Gutenberg.

The Cid. Project Gutenberg.

Background and Summary

Pierre Corneille. Wikipedia

Le Cid. Wikipedia

Reading Quizzes

Corneille and Le Cid: reading quiz

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