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Corneille

Pierre Corneille · French tragedian (1606–1684) · 1606–1684

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Dominique Pagani sees Corneille's work as a theatre of honour. The hero, a warrior from an age when the man of the sword counts most, sacrifices his passion to an honour that is always external, whether familial or collective, and that only makes sense in relation to others123. He reads Le Cid closely and considers it still baroque because of its two plots. He also looks closely at the dialogue between Horace and Curiace, where Roman honour stands against the humanity of the Alban45. He consistently contrasts Corneille with Racine: Corneille's confidants are "Racinian" because they urge feeling, and his caesura at the hemistich, symmetrical and more "military," differs from Racine's verbal magic67. Still, he credits Corneille with unmatched heights, such as "Soyons amis, Cinna"8. He also draws on him for examples of antithesis ("having reached the summit, he longs to descend"), for the play within the play and the motif of the cave in L'Illusion comique, and for the classical character conceived as a fixed type.

  1. 1#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 15:30
  2. 2Kant11 Dec 2015 · 1:16:29
  3. 3Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 58:26
  4. 4Kant11 Dec 2015 · 1:17:53
  5. 5Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 35:36
  6. 6#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 48:50
  7. 7Musicosophie 18. Ce qui est musical dans la musique25 Mar 2021 · 1:04:12
  8. 89 #12 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?14 Jan 2021 · 34:49

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Pierre Corneille ( kor-NAY, French:; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage 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 the 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.

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Text: Wikipédia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Portrait: After Charles Le Brun, Public domain

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