"Well translated by Lacy Lockert, who provided an excellent critical introduction, this is a valuable selection of the plays of the great French Neo-Classicist. Included are Horace, The Cid, Cinna, Polyeucte, Rodugune, Nicomede."--Library Journal. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Originally published in 1906, with the aim of educating British schoolchildren, this book provides a full text, in the original French, of the famous seventeenth-century drama Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. H. W. Eve begins the work with a biography of the playwright and of the original Le Cid, as well as many notes on the linguistic, literary and historical content of the play. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in French drama or the history of French education in Britain.