Review
"This eminently readable book, often incisive, sometimes profound, will quickly take its place among the more important recent studies of Corneille . . ." -Modern Language Review (Modern Language Review )
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Product Description
Corneille virtually founded seventeenth-century French tragedy: "Le Cid" and the three subsequent tragedies gave the genre its models and much of its theory. Many critics have created a synthetic picture of "Cornelian heroism" by seeing these four plays as representative of all Corneille's work, thus neglecting the sixteen others that followed. Now the tide has turned: scholars are trying to analyse the meaning of Cornielle's work with close reference to historical events and political ideas.
