Pierre corneille biography tragedies in history
Triumphs and tragedies in history.
Corneille, Pierre (1606–1684)
BORN: 1606, Rouen, France
DIED: 1684, Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Nonfiction, poetry, drama
MAJOR WORKS:
Le Cid (1636–1637)
Horace (1640)
Cinna; or, The Mercy of Augustus (1642–1643)
The Martyr Polyeucte (1643)
Overview
Pierre Corneille was the first great tragic dramatist of France.
Pierre corneille biography tragedies in history
Although many of his thirty-four plays are comedies
or works of mixed type, he is particularly known for creating the genre of French classical tragedy with his innovative and controversial masterpiece, Le Cid. His work dominated the French stage during the first half of the seventeenth century.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Jesuit Education to Legal Career Corneille was born June 6, 1606, in Rouen, Normandy, France, into a middle-class family.
His father worked as an administrator of natural resources for the viscount of Rouen. His education at a Jesuit school, with its emphasis on the Latin classics and on the imp