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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. John C. Lapp is the author of Le Cid, published by Wiley.
1606: Birth of Pierre Croneille
in Rouen
June 6 1622: Finishes studies at the Jesuit college of Rouen 1624: Receives law degree 1625-29: His first play
Mélite
a comedy
staged in Paris 1632: Clitandre
tragicomedy 1633-34: Three comedies
La Veuve
La Galerie du Palais
and La Suivante. Médée
a tradegy 1636: 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 1637-38: "Quarrel of the Cid
" various critics and the Academy itself publish criticisms
to which the author replies 1640: Horace and Cinna
tragedies. Marriage to Marie de Lampérière 1641-43: Polyeucte
tragedy 1642-43: La Mort de Pompée
tragedy; le Menteur
comedy; la Suite du Menteur
comedy 1644: Rodogune
tragedy 1645: Théodore
vierge et martyre
tragedy 1647: Héraclius
tragedy 1650: Andromède
tragedy "with machines" (the use of stage machinery for spectacular effects
as in opera)
Don Sanche d'Aragon
heroic comedy 1651: Nocomède
tragedy 1652: Pertharite tragedy whichfails. Corneille gives up writing drama for seven years 1659: Returns to the theatre with dipe
tragedy 1661: La Toison d'Or
tragedy with machines 1662: Sertorius
tragedy 1663: Sophonisbe
tragedy 1664: Othon
tragedy 1666: Agésilas
tragedy 1667: Attila
tragedy 1670: Tite et Bérénice
heroic comedy 1671: Psyché
tragic ballet
in collaboration with Molière
Quinault
and Lully 1672: Pulchérie
heroic comedy 1684: Death of Corneille on October 1st
