{"product_id":"le-cid-isbn-9780882950266","title":"Le Cid","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited and translated by John C. Lapp, this edition of Le Cid for performance and study includes an introduction, which interprets the contemporary political, social, and romantic themes that give this tragedy its complex, interwoven structure. Also included are a selected bibliography and a list of the principal dates in the life of Corneille.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1606: Birth of Pierre Croneille, in Rouen, June 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1622: Finishes studies at the Jesuit college of Rouen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1624: Receives law degree\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1625-29: His first play, Mélite, a comedy, staged in Paris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1632: Clitandre, tragicomedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1633-34: Three comedies, La Veuve, La Galerie du Palais, and La Suivante. Médée, a tradegy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1636: L’Illusion comique, comedy, and Le Cid, tragicomedy, based on the play by Guillen de Castro, Las Mocedades del Cid. Richelieu grants him an annual pension of 1,500 livres\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1637-38: “Quarrel of the Cid,” various critics and the Academy itself publish criticisms, to which the author replies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1640: Horace and Cinna, tragedies. Marriage to Marie de Lampérière\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1641-43: Polyeucte, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1642-43: La Mort de Pompée, tragedy; le Menteur, comedy; la Suite du Menteur, comedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1644: Rodogune, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1645: Théodore, vierge et martyre, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1647: Héraclius, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1650: Andromède, tragedy “with machines” (the use of stage machinery for spectacular effects, as in opera), Don Sanche d’Aragon, heroic comedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1651: Nocomède, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1652: Pertharite tragedy whichfails. Corneille gives up writing drama for seven years\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1659: Returns to the theatre with Œdipe, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1661: La Toison d’Or, tragedy with machines\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1662: Sertorius, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1663: Sophonisbe, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1664: Othon, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1666: Agésilas, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1667: Attila, tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1670: Tite et Bérénice, heroic comedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1671: Psyché, tragic ballet, in collaboration with Molière, Quinault, and Lully\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1672: Pulchérie, heroic comedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1684: Death of Corneille on October 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. John C. Lapp is the author of Le Cid, published by Wiley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989514240229,"sku":"NP9780882950266","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780882950266.jpg?v=1761784411","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/le-cid-isbn-9780882950266","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}