num_pages: 144
description: Corneille virtually founded seventeenth-century French tragedy: Le Cid and the three subsequent tragedies gave the genre its models and much of its theory. Many critics have created a synthetic picture of "Cornelian heroism" by seeing these four plays as representative of all Corneille's work, thus neglecting the sixteen others that followed. Now the tide has turned: scholars are trying to analyse the meaning of Cornielle's work with close reference to historical events and political ideas.
language: English
title: Corneille's Tragedies: The Role of the Unexpected
titlecomplete: Corneille's Tragedies: The Role of the Unexpected
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers