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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
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Corneille was born in Rouen, Normandy, France, to Marthe Le Pesant and Pierre Corneille, a distinguished lawyer. His younger brother, Thomas Corneille, also became a noted...
See moreThe dramatist, author and philosopher Voltaire created, with the support of the Académie française, a twelve-volume annotated set of Corneille's dramatic works, the Commentaires sur Corneille. It was Voltaire's largest ever work of literary criticism.
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See more• Ekstein, Nina. Corneille's Irony. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2007.
• Harrison, Helen. Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy....
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See more• Works by or about Pierre Corneille at Internet Archive
• Works by Pierre Corneille at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• The Comédie Française Registers Project includes performances...
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