Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 – October 1, 1684) was a French playwright. He is one of the most famous 17th century French dramatists. Some others are Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years.
Works
- Mélite (1629)
- Clitandre (1630–31)
- la Veuve (1631)
- la Galerie du Palais (1631–32)
- La Place royale (1633–34)
- l'Illusion comique (1636)
- Médée (1635)
- le Cid (1637)
- Horace (1640)
- Cinna (1641)
- Polyeucte (1642)
- La Mort de Pompée (1643)
- Le Menteur (1643)
- Rodogune (1644)
- Héraclius (1647)
- Don Sanche d'Aragon (1650)
- Andromède, (1650)
- Nicomède, (1651)
- Pertharite, (1651)
- l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ (1656)
- Oedipe (1659)
- Trois Discours sur le poème dramatique (1660)
- La Toison d'or (1660)
- Sertorius (1662)
- Othon (1664)
- Agésilas (1666)
- Attila (1667)
- Tite et Bérénice (1670)
- Psyché (w/ Molière and Philippe Quinault,1671)
- Suréna (1674)
Pierre Corneille Media
Coat of arms of the Corneille family, which dates back to 1637
Corneille by Philippe Lemaire. Stone, before 1853. 8th statue from Pavillon Rohan to Pavillon Turgot, Cour Napoléon in the Louvre.
Adrienne Lecouvreur as Cornelia in The Death of Pompey
