Le Cid Flashcards
Where was LE CID first performed?
When
Paris, France
1636 -1637
How many Pierre Corneille Plays at this point?
10
How many Pierre Corneille comedies?
Writing related to who else’s?
1
Shakespeare
Pierre Corneille Tragedy “Médée” modeled after who else?
Was it Successful?
Seneca
not successful, unoriginal story hindered his creative ability
Le Cid, popular?
Why?
Le Cid = very popular
It pleased the aristocratic audience:
- youthful love
- heroic derring-do
- tender lyricism
- violent declamation.
les ultramondains
super catholics
context
story written after the events of “Song of Roland” but the story itself happens around the same time of context as “Song of Roland”
molonistes
against the idea of predistination, our fate is not predetermined
Janselisme
Everything is predestined by God
quietisme
to know God, you must completely forget oneself, achieving peace to finally hear and see God
valeurs
- naturel
- clarité
- sublime
- Vérité
Querelle?
Querelle des anciens et des modernes
- limitations des influences de la passe
- un vouloir pour les nouveaux idées
Chimene (Woman of love interest)
- in love with Rodrigue first
Elvire (Chimene’s little bitch)
- follows her around
- peasant
Rodrigue
- in love with chimene
Don
Don title evolved to mean a distinguished gentleman
Don Diegue
- Rodrigue’s father
- bro started smart mouthing with the king
- bro says king is not the shit
- thinks king needs him
- bro thinks he got maximum aura
- makes the other nobleman worry because you shouldn’t taunt the king
Castille
Moors
Grenada
“Cid,”
Which in their tongue does mean a mighty lord,
Hencefore you shall be Cid, and let this name
Strike terror in the heart of all Grenada,
Toledo
We were five hundred, but our ranks soon swelled.
Till, when we reached the port, we were three
thousand
Moors were ambushed type shit, didn’t think anyone was defending port, but actually everyone was hiding
abandon two kings out of fear
