Le Cid
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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
Title page of 1637 printing of Le Cid
Portrait of Pierre Corneille, the playwright
Chimène - Costume for Massenet's Opera based on Le Cid by Ludovic Napoléon Lepic in 1885
The Duel - Drawn for Massenet's Opera based on Le Cid
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.
Le Cid
…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…
Guillén de Castro y Mateo, engraving from 1628 by Juan Ribalta.