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Pierre Corneille (/ kɔːrˈneɪ / kor-NAY, [1] French: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Mol...
Pierre Corneille was a French poet and dramatist, considered the creator of French classical tragedy. His chief works include Le Cid (1637), Horace (1640), Cinna (1641), and Polyeucte (1643).
Corneille wrote or collaborated on more than thirty plays during a career spanning forty-five years. His masterpiece, The Cid, is the first classical tragedy in French.
Widely considered the creator of French tragedy, poet and dramatist Pierre Corneille grew up in Rouen, France. He is counted among the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
Although Corneille is considered by most critics to be the father of French tragedy, six of his first eight plays were comedies. His first play, MÉLITE, was presented by a strolling troupe that happened through Rouen in 1629.
Is Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) the most underrated playwright in dramatic literature? Prolific, poetically gifted and instinctively experimental, he architected neoclassical drama while subtly coloring inside and out...
Although Pierre Corneille is regarded as the founder of French tragedy, six of his first eight plays were comedies. He actually produced 20 works while a member of parliament, and 12 more thereafter.
