SIGNS and MEANINGS: Horace’s Trial and the Quarrel of the Cid (II)

• Authors: Antoine Soare
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In Corneille’s Horace the hero is brought to trial for having defended Rome’s integrity by killing his own sister. The fifth act of the play is devoted to this trial, but should also be read like an allegorical re-enactment of the Querelle du Cid, during which Corneille himself was put to a kind of a ”trial’’ by colleagues and critics scandalized by the moral and ideological audacity of this first play dedicated to a criminal hero. Our paper tries to point out in detail the analogies that authorize such a reading.

Keywords

EN

French XVIIth century; Tragic drama; Corneille; Le Cid; Horace; the Criminal hero

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 90-100

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-02-06

Contributors

author

Antoine Soare

• French Literature and Language Department, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) CANADA H3C 3J7

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hssr-2013-0031