Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Le Cid
Author: Pierre CorneilleLe Cid ; And, The Liar
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156035835
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Richard Wilbur's translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille's most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a farce, set in France and dealing with love, misperceptions, and downright falsifications, which ends, of course, happily ever after. These two plays, together in one volume, work in perfect tandem to showcase the breadth of Corneille's abilities. Taking us back to the time he portrays as well as the time of his greatest success as a playwright, they remind us that the delights to be found on the French stage are truly ageless.
Corneille's Le Cid
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher:
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Le Cid
Author: Pierre CorneilleLe Cid by Pierre Corneille (Book Analysis)
Author: Bright SummariesPublisher: BrightSummaries.com
ISBN: 2806270553
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Unlock the more straightforward side of Le Cid with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Le Cid by Pierre Corneille, one of the most famous plays of this acclaimed French playwright of the 17th century. In this deeply moving tragicomedy based on a Spanish story, the heroes are torn between love and duty because of a destiny which has irremediably set them up against each other. Based on the legend of El Cid, Corneille's work was met with enormous popular success and even inspired an opera. He is now considered to be one of the three greatest French playwrights of the 17th century, along with Molière and Jean Racine. Find out everything you need to know about Le Cid in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
The Cid
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cid" by Pierre Corneille. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Corneille: Three Masterpieces
Author: Pierre CorneillePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849439672
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille (1606–84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career. Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at the core of the repertory. When the young Molière saw The Liar (Le Menteur), a delightful chronicle of a pathological liar’s adventures in love, he decided to become a playwright. The Illusion (L’Illusion Comique) is a fascinating and mysterious tragi-comedy, one of the first plays to explore consciously the relationship between theatre and the real world. Le Cid, Corneille’s best known play, was controversial in its day, and led to a resurgence in French drama. Ranjit Bolt’s version of The Liar finds a way of rendering rhyming couplets which ‘no one else from the history of translating for the theatre has ever done...with some style and without sacrificing the sense of gallantry that is so essential to the original text.’ (BBC Radio3’s Critics Forum.) Both The Liar and The Illusion recently enjoyed critical and box office success at the Old Vic, reaffirming Ranjit Bolt as one of the world’s foremost translators of drama.
Author: Pierre Corneille
Author: Pierre Corneille
Author: Jean Calvet