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Pierre Corneille(1606-1684)

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Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

As a young man, he earned the valuable patrionate of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.
BornJune 6, 1606
DiedOctober 1, 1684(78)
BornJune 6, 1606
DiedOctober 1, 1684(78)
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Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn
6.5
  • Writer
  • 1970
Qu'il est joli garçon l'assassin de papa (1979)
Qu'il est joli garçon l'assassin de papa
3.1
  • Writer
  • 1979
Polyeucte
  • Writer
  • 2005
TV teatar (1956)
TV teatar
7.5
TV Series
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  • Medea (2018)
    Medea
  • Michael Fabiano in Donizetti: Poliuto (2016)
    Donizetti: Poliuto
  • Le Cid
    • (as Corneille)
  • The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006)
    The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
    • (uncredited)
  • Le Cid
    • (as Corneille)
  • The Screen Illusion (2010)
    The Screen Illusion
  • Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter (1968)
    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
  • Polyeucte
  • Plácido Domingo in Le Cid (2001)
    Le Cid
  • Anna Caterina Antonacci and Andreas Scholl in Rodelinda (1998)
    Rodelinda
  • Francine Bergé and Michèle Command in Médée (1996)
    Médée
    • (as Corneille)
  • La place royale
  • Medea (1989)
    Medea
  • Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (1987)
    Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
    • (uncredited)
  • Cid
    • (as Corneille)

Personal details

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    • Académie française (french)
    • France's National Library catalogue
    • June 6, 1606
    • Rouen, Normandy, Kingdom of France [now Seine-Maritime, France]
    • October 1, 1684
    • Paris, Kingdom of France [now France]
    • 1641 - October 1, 1684 (his death, 6 children)
  • Other works
    His play, "The Liar", was performed at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Alex Jennings, Desmond Barrit, Simon Dormandy and Christine Kavanagh in the cast. Jonathan Miller was the director.
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    • 1 Portrayal
    • 1 Article

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  • Trivia
    Tony Kushner and his play, "The Illusion", at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Play (Large).

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