The complete online text of The Cid by Pierre Corneille.

The French dramatist Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) wrote more than 30 plays and is often called the father of French tragedy. His tragedies characteristically explore the conflict between heroic love and heroic devotion to duty. Pierre Corneille was born...

The most successful playwright of the reign of Louis XIII, Pierre Corneille was the author of thirty-three plays and of the most important study of dramatic aesthetics in his century, known as "Trois discours sur le poème dramatique" (Three Discou...

THE QUEST FOR EL CID IF THERE was in fact a Trojan war, it may have been no more than a raid for plunder. The background to the glorious story of the Cid, "The Song of Roland", was a rearguard skirmish at...

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