Corneille in a sentence

Kooweerup certainly didn’t have it all its own way on the weekend, as Bevin Corneille (83) and Tyson Bertrand (30) took things up to the reigning premiers from the outset.

It is thus very likely that Molière's masterpieces would not have been written by Corneille, nor by another author.

Attitudes shifted, however, as Racine began to eclipse Corneille.

By the second edition, published ten years later, Voltaire had come to a more negative assessment of Corneille and a stronger view on the need for objective criticism.

Corneille Van Clève (1681) represents a seated Polyphemus in his sculpture, except that in his version it is pipes that the giant holds in his lowered hand.

However, the Cardinal's demands were too restrictive for Corneille, who attempted to innovate outside the boundaries defined by Richelieu.

In 1652, the play Pertharite met with poor critical reviews and a disheartened Corneille decided to quit the theatre.

In 1674, the highly respected poet and critic Boileau published his Art Poétique which deemed Racine's model of tragedy superior to that of Corneille.

In his own plays, Racine sought to abandon the ornate and almost otherworldly intricacy that Corneille so favored.

In their final conclusions, the Academy ruled that even though Corneille had attempted to remain loyal to the unity of time, "Le Cid" broke too many of the unities to be a valued piece of work.

Later plays Even though Corneille was prolific after his return to the stage, writing one play a year for the 14 years after 1659, his later plays did not have the same success as those of his earlier career.

Molière reached Paris in 1658 and performed in front of the King at the Louvre (then for rent as a theatre) in Corneille's tragedy Nicomède and in the farce Le Docteur Amoureux with some success.

Molière was also prominent at the time and Corneille even composed the comedy Psyché (1671) in collaboration with him (and Philippe Quinault ).

Most of the plays that Corneille wrote after his return to the stage were tragedies.

Noble characters should not be depicted as vile (reprehensible actions are generally due to non-noble characters in Corneille's plays).

Performing a classic play by Pierre Corneille and a farce of his own, The Doctor in Love, Molière was granted the use of salle du Petit-Bourbon near the Louvre, a spacious room appointed for theatrical performances.

Querelle du Cid In the years directly following this break with Richelieu, Corneille produced what is considered his finest play.

Scudéry, a close friend of Mariet at the time, did not stoop to Corneille's level of "distastefulness", but instead continued to pillory Le Cid and its violations.

The Cardinal took notice of Corneille and selected him to be among Les Cinq Auteurs main ("The Five Poets"; also translated as "the society of the five authors").

The dramatic works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine are typically composed of rhyming alexandrine couplets.