TY - BOOK AU - Corneille,Pierre AU - Mongan,Roscoe TI - The Cid AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Cid, approximately 1043-1099 -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cid; Release date is 2005-02-07; Produced by David Garcia, Branko Collin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Cid" by Pierre Corneille is a five-act tragicomedy written in 1636. When Rodrigue kills Chimène's father in a duel to defend his own father's honor, their passionate love faces an impossible test. Can Chimène marry the man who slew her father, even as duty demands she seek vengeance? This groundbreaking play sparked fierce controversy for defying classical dramatic rules, yet became one of seventeenth-century French theater's greatest triumphs, proving that tragic characters need not follow conventional paths. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14954 ER -