Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Le Cid
Corneille in the Cid founded the French classical drama. Before the appearance of this masterpiece, a transition drama containing characteristics of the tragi comedy as well as of the regular classical tragedy, of which Corneille's next three plays, Horace, Cinna, and Polyeucte, were to be perfect examples, the tragi-comedy pme'd in France. This tragi-comedy, or irregular drama, was a Renaissance product, having ahistory and characteristics of its own, being largely in?uenced by the tragedies of Seneca. Its'most important charac teristics are non-historic subjects, serious or tragic plots, the mixture of comic and tragic elements or tones, the high rank of the leading characters, the style noble, looseness of structure, the disregard of the minor or Italian unities of time and place, the classic form of verse and number of acts, romanesque elements, and a happy ending.
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