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Corneille Study GuidePierre 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 TextLe Cid. Project Gutenberg. The Cid. Project Gutenberg. Background and SummaryPierre Corneille. Wikipedia Le Cid. Wikipedia Reading QuizzesCorneille and Le Cid: reading quiz Back to the schedule page. Programs and information provided by hcexres@prismnet.com. |