This volume compiles three of Corneille's most lauded plays: The Cid,
Corneille's masterpiece set in medieval Spain, was the first great work
of French classical drama; Cinna, written three years later in 1641,
is a tense political drama; and The Theatrical Illusion, an earlier
work, is reminiscent of Shakespeare's exuberant comedies.
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