Publisher's Synopsis
This text analyzes the poetic style of Corneille's "Medee", "Le Cid", "Horace", "Cinna", "Polyeucte", "Pompee", "Theodore", and "Rodogune", with a final chapter devoted to the later tragedies. It situates Corneille's stylistic mode of expression within the historical framework and social milieu in which these works were composed.