Rare complete set of 10 beautiful volumes with baroque bindings Works by P. Corneille. In Paris at Savoye 1758

This beautiful set in good condition In 16, full period calfskin smooth spine bindings with the "grotesque" private library stamp. His work, of 32 plays in total, is varied: alongside comedies close to baroque aesthetics, full of theatrical invention like the Comic Illusion, Pierre Corneillr was able to give a brand new emotional and reflexive power to modern tragedy , which appeared in France in the middle of the 17th century. Struggling with the establishment of the rules of classical theater, he left his mark on the genre through the great figures he created: like Rodrigue who must choose between love and family honor, Auguste who prefers clemency to revenge. or Polyeucte placed between human love and the love of God? If the figures of the young men full of enthusiasm (Rodrigue, the young Horace) should not make us forget the female characters vibrant with feelings like Chimène in the Cid, Camille in Horace or Cleopatra queen of Syria, in Rodogune. Also marked by power of a rhythmic alexandrine which gives famous pieces of bravery (monologue of Don Diègue in the Cid, imprecations of Camille in Horace) and the force of maxims to certain words ("To conquer without danger, we triumph without glory"), the Cid. II. 2 - "Let time, your valor and your king"; last verse of the Cid - "I am master of myself as of the universe" Cinna. V. 3 - “God does not want a heart where the world dominates” Polyeucte, I. 1). The theater of Pierre Corneille thus echoes the turns of the Grand Siècle whose values it also reflects such as honor and the great questions about power for example (context of the deaths of Richelieu and Louis XIII); the question of civil war in The Death of Pompey (1643) or the struggle for the throne in Nicomedes (1651, in the context of the Fronde). Today he is among one of the most widely performed authors and also one of the references in universal literature.... I hope I have convinced you..

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