The Playwright (The Man)
Corneille's birthdate.
What is June 6, 1606?
Corneille's first flop. (Include genre and year)
What is the comedy Héraclius (1647)?
The month and year Le Cid was first performed.
What is December 1636?
Suppressed public performances of Le Cid.
Who is the Cardinal de Richelieu?
The group formed to standardize the rules of French Neoclassical theatre. (Include year)
What is the Académie Française (1636)?
The genre of Corneille's first play.
What is comedy
The age Corneille was when he died.
What is 78 years old?
Le Cid's genre. (Trick question with 2 answers)
What is originally issued as a tragicomedy, but was labeled a tragedy by the Académie Française.
The amount of time Corneille refrained from writing after publishing Le Cid?
The ancient document that was used to justify Neoclassical rules.
What is Aristotle's Poetics?
The type of training Corneille received at the College de Bourbon.
What is acting Training
What is the Académie Française?
What is Las Mocedades del Cid written by Guillen de Castro y Bellvis?
Audience's reactions to Le Cid.
What is Le Cid proved to be a great success despite sparking literary controversy?
The unities of French Neoclassicism. (Explain them)
What is the Unity of Time (A play should take place over the span of a few hours, or a day maximum), Unity of Place (A play should take place in a singular unchanging location), Unity of Action (A play should follow a singular storyline *NO SUBPLOTS!*)?
The play Corneille dedicated to the Cardinal de Richelieu.
What is Horace (1640)?
The group that Cardinal de Richelieu included Corneille in.
What is Les Cinq Auteurs?
How the verses in Le Cid differ from verses used in English theatre. (Include the name of the meter)
What is Alexandrine verse contains 12 syllables instead of 10, and places major accents on the 6th and 12th syllables?
The person who wrote the document for the Académie Française.
Who is Jean Chapelain?
The literature that laid out the framework for the Neoclassical unities. (Include year)
What is Le Pleiad (1550)?
Who Corneille lived with in harmony for many years.
Who were his wife, his brother, Thomas, and Thomas's wife.
Corneille's first tragedy. (Include year)
What is Medee (1635)?
How Le Cid impacted Corneille's career and French Neoclassical Theatre moving forward. (Multiple answers are acceptable)
What is Le Cid put Corneille on the MAP solidifying him as a leading playwright of his time, and paved the way for Jean Rancine's "pure" tragedy?
The elements French Neoclassicism of Le Cid that violates. (Explain how) (DOUBLE JEOPARDYYYYY)
What is the Unity of Action (Too many things going on during the play), Decorum (Critics claimed that it's implausible that Chimene would still have feelings for and want to marry the man who killed her father), Purity of the Dramatic Form (Mixes comedy and tragedy and has a happy ending), Morality (Don Rodrigue is still seen as a hero and gets to marry Chimene despite killing her father).
The Elements of French Neoclassicism Le Cid follows. (Must name all for full points)
What is, Unity of Place, Unity of Time, Verisimilitude, having a 5 act structure, focus on nobility?