[Gutenberg 14954] • The Cid
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- Authors
- Corneille, Pierre
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- romance , approximately 1043-1099 -- drama , classics , cid
- ISBN
- 9780140443127
- Date
- 1975-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.06 MB
- Lang
- en
The Cid, Corneille's masterpiece set in medieval Spain, was the first great work of French classical drama; Cinna, written three years later in 1641, is a tense political drama, while The Theatrical Illusion, an earlier work, is reminiscent of Shakespeare's exuberant comedies.