Guillén de Castro y Bellvis
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Guillén de Castro y Mateo was a Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. He was distinguished member of the "Nocturnos", a Spanish version of the "Academies" in Italy.
Guillén de Castro y Mateo, engraving from 1628 by Juan Ribalta.
Pierre Corneille
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Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
Guillén de Castro y Bellvis
…first volume to Lope de Vega's daughter. The drama that has made Castro's reputation is Las Mocedades del Cid (c. 1605–1615), to the first part of which Pierre Corneille was largely indebted for the materials of his tragedy. The two parts of this play, like all those by Castro, have the genuine ring of the old romances…
Detail from a portrait by Charles Le Brun
Coat of arms of the Corneille family, which dates back to 1637
Home of the Corneille family in Rouen, where Corneille was born. It was turned into a museum dedicated to his work in 1920.
Corneille at the Louvre