Corneilles Le Cid Classic Reprint

Author : Gustave L. Van Roosbroeck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656931026
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Cid Theme in France in 1600 (Classic Reprint) written by Gustave L. Van Roosbroeck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cid Theme in France in 1600 Since the Observations sur le Cid of de Scudery, the literary indebtedness of Corneille's Cid to Guillen de Castro's Las M ocedades del Cid has been minutely traced by a host of critics. In accord ance with their preferences for classical or for more romantic forms of art, or in accordance with their national sympathies, they have entered wearisome pleas for the superiority of the Spanish or of the French poet. In the estimation of some German and Spanish critics and of a few modern Scuderys, Corneille is only an imi tator, hardly more than the translator of Las Mocedades del Cid; to most French critics, on the other hand, he remains a genius who did de Castro the honor of transforming his inflated and digressive play into a restrained and classical masterpiece. Nearly all critics, however, agree in one respect: Corneille has intensified the dra matic effect of the play by concentrating upon the moral problem of Chimene, upon her desire for vengeance and her love for the man who has killed her father in a duel. The comparison of both texts confirms this View. To allow the development of the internal drama, Corneille has markedly diminished the number of incidents; he has given a deeper and a more finely shaded analysis of the motives of his characters. Ernest Merimee, for instance, restates this as follows in the preface to his edition of the first part of Las Mocedades del Cid: Le principal m'rite de Corneille n'est certaine ment ni dans l' invention, ni neme dans la perfection de chaque partie, mais dans ce fait qu'il a mis en une lumiere plus vive encore que n' avait fait Castro cc qui fait le fond et 1' int'r't 'ternel du drame: lo lutte de la passion et da devoir, de 1' amour et de l' honneur, chez Rodrigue et chez Chimeric. (cxiii) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.