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- Author
- Pierre Corneille
- First published
- 1636
- Editions
- 134
- Subjects
- Drama, French drama, French language, History, Héros dans la littérature, Criticism and interpretation, Théâtre (Genre littéraire), Théâtre (genre littéraire) français
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Key facts
- Written by
- Pierre Corneille
- Characters
- See below
- Date premiered
- February 7, 1637
- Place premiered
- Théâtre du Marais , Paris
- Original language
- French
- Genre
- Tragicomedy
- Setting
- Kingdom of Castile
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- 3402440-Le Cid performed in Paris 1637-Burgos.jpg
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- date of first performance
- 1636-00-00
- Commons category
- Le Cid
- inception
- 1636-00-00
- title
- Le Cid
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Portrait of Pierre Corneille, the playwright Le Cid is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro's play Las Mocedades del Cid. Castro's play in turn is based on the legend of El Cid.
An enormous popular success, Corneille's Le Cid was the subject of a heated polemic over the norms of dramatic practice known as the Querelle du Cid (Quarrel of The Cid). Cardinal Richelieu's Académie française acknowledged the play's success, but determined that it was defective, in part because it did not respect the classical unities.