Pierre+Corneille

=Pierre Corneille =

 Pierre Corneille (6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French [|tragedian] who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French [|dramatists], along with [|Molière] and [|Racine]. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years. (Source:[])

  Corneille at the Louvre.

Early life and plays  Corneille was born at [|Rouen], France, to Marthe le Pesant de Boisguilbert and Pierre Corneille, a distinguished lawyer.He was given a rigorous [|Jesuit] education and at 18 began to study law. His practical legal endeavors were largely unsuccessful. Corneille’s father secured two magisterial posts for him with the Rouen department of Forests and Rivers. During his time with the department he wrote his first play. It is unknown exactly when he wrote it, but the play, the [|comedy] [|Mélite], surfaced when Corneille brought it to a group of traveling actors in 1629. The actors approved of the work and made it part of their repertoire. The play was a success in Paris and Corneille began writing plays on a regular basis. He moved to Paris in the same year and soon became one of the leading playwrights of the French stage. His early comedies, starting with Mélite, depart from the French farce tradition by reflecting the elevated language and manners of fashionable [|Parisian] society. Corneille describes his variety of comedy as "une peinture de la conversation des honnêtes  (Source:[])

Plays


 * [|Mélite] (1629)
 * [|Clitandre] (1630–31)
 * [|la Veuve] (1631)
 * [|la Galerie du Palais] (1631–32)
 * [|La Place royale] (1633–34)
 * [|l'Illusion comique] (1636)
 * [|Médée] (1635)
 * [|le Cid] (1637)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cinna] (1639)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Horace] (1640)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Polyeucte] (1642)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|La Mort de Pompée] (1643)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Le Menteur] (1643)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Rodogune] (1644)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Théodore] (1645)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Héraclius] (1647)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Don Sanche d'Aragon] (1650)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Andromède], (1650)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Nicomède], (1651)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Pertharite], (1651)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ] (1656)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Oedipe] (1659)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Trois Discours sur le poème dramatique] (1660)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|La Toison d'or] (1660)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Sertorius] (1662)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Othon] (1664)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Agésilas] (1666)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Attila] (1667)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Tite et Bérénice] (1670)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Psyché] (w/ [|Molière] and [|Philippe Quinault],1671)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Pulchérie] (1672)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Suréna] (1674)

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