Corneille, Pierre - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Ault, Harold C. "The Tragic Genius of Corneille." The Modern Language Review XLV, No. 2 (April 1950): 164-76.
Examination of The Cid, Horatius, Cinna, and Polyeuctes in order to "consider in what way they are still tragedies to an audience very different from that for which Corneille wrote. It is an audience more interested in humanity than in heroism, an audience ignorant of what he was attempting to do and careless as to why he did it in such a particular way, an audience with a cultural background completely changed from that of his."
Barnwell, H. T. The Tragic Drama of Corneille and Racine: An Old Parallel Revisited. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 275 p.
Investigates various aspects of plot in the dramas of Corneille and Racine with the aim of seeing more clearly "both the parallels and the divergences between the two dramatists, not only in their technique...
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