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... CORNEILLE . With the production , in 1636 , of Corneille's tragedy , Le Cid , modern French drama came into existence . Previous to that date , two main movements are discernible in French dramatic art— one carrying on the medieval ...
... CORNEILLE . With the production , in 1636 , of Corneille's tragedy , Le Cid , modern French drama came into existence . Previous to that date , two main movements are discernible in French dramatic art— one carrying on the medieval ...
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... Corneille . By nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other ...
... Corneille . By nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other ...
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... Corneille hardly attempted to produce such effects as these ; and during his early years his great gifts of passion ... Corneille's dramatic method , but they are also full of the charac- teristic bad taste and affectations of the age ...
... Corneille hardly attempted to produce such effects as these ; and during his early years his great gifts of passion ... Corneille's dramatic method , but they are also full of the charac- teristic bad taste and affectations of the age ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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