Pierre Corneille

Jun 6, 1606 - Oct 1, 1684

Pierre Corneille 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.
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“The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.”

Pierre Corneille
Jun 6, 1606 - Oct 1, 1684
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