18 books like Le Cid

What to read after Le Cid — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Annonce Faite a Marie, L' Paul Claudel · 1912 · ★ 5.0 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "The action revolves around the relationship between the two sisters who are totally different i temperament and yet who are indissolubly joined. Violaine is the good sister who will represent Christian charity in its fullest sense. Mara (whose name in Hebrew means 'bitter') is the jealous sister who will, at the end of the play murder Violaine ..." -- Introduction. Shares: French drama, French language, Continental european drama, Drama

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1821 · ★ 4.1 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman… Shares: French drama, Théâtre, French language, Drama

Phèdre Jean Racine · 1677 · ★ 3.7 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Phèdre est un tourbillon de folie amoureuse et de sang. Des divinités invisibles égarent les héros de Racine, les jetant dans la fureur... Héritière d'une lignée maudite, Phèdre devrait aimer le prince Thésée, son mari. Elle brûle au contraire pour son beau-fils Hippolyte, d'une fièvre qui la ronge, la conduit au délire et au crime. Plongée dans " l'inimaginable enfer " de la jalousie, elle… Shares: French drama, Théâtre, Continental european drama, Drama

Ruy Blas Victor Hugo · 1838 · ★ 3.6 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Trois especes de spectateurs composent ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler le public : premierement, les femmes ; deuxiemement, les penseurs ; troisiemement, la foule proprement dite. Ce que la foule demande presque exclusivement a l'oeuvre dramatique, c'est de l'action ; ce que les femmes y veulent avant tout, c'est de la passion ; ce qu'y cherchent plus specialement les penseurs, ce sont des… Shares: French drama, French language, Drama

Plays August Strindberg · 1906 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging For contents, see Author Catalog. Shares: Théâtre, Continental european drama, Drama, History

Tartuffe Molière · 1707 · ★ 3.8 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Demanding 1 online resource Shares: French drama, Théâtre, French language, Drama

Hernani Victor Hugo · 1830 · ★ 3.4 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Challenging L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans doute, il est triste de voir un poete de vingt ans qui s'en va, une lyre qui se brise, un avenir qui s'evanouit; mais n'est-ce pas quelque chose aussi que le repos? N'est-il pas… Shares: French drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Les tragiques Agrippa d' Aubigné · 1800 · 203p · ≈ 6h · Challenging La douloureuse histoire des guerres de religion, Agrippa d'Aubigné l'a vécue, jour après jour, dans le camp protestant, dès sa plus tendre enfance. Très tôt, il fut le témoin de scènes de massacre et il participa tout jeune aux combats. Ecuyer d'Henri de Navarre, il partagea avec lui une vie d'aventures et, immobilisé par une blessure, composa le long poème des Tragiques. Cette œuvre de colère… Shares: Continental european drama, Poetry

Le barbier de Séville Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · 1776 · ★ 3.7 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Un vieux bourgeois enferme dans sa maison une ingénue qu’il entend épouser. Un amoureux, avec l’aide de son rusé serviteur, soustrait la jeune fille à ce mariage forcé – et l’épouse lui-même.C’est un thème de comédie d’intrigue qui ne semble guère neuf. Et pourtant, en 1775, Beaumarchais, dans Le Barbier de Séville, en donne une illustration sautillante, virevoltante, qui suit le rythme de la… Shares: French drama, Continental european drama

Phoenician women Euripides · 1802 · ★ 3.7 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of the Athenian playwright Euripides, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Beautifully illustrated with images relating… Shares: Théâtre, Continental european drama, Drama, History

Axël Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam · 1838 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging 10 Oeuvres de Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Ce livre numérique présente une collection des oeuvres majeures de Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres. Liste des oeuvres: 1862 - Isis 1866 - Poèmes parus dans le Parnasse contemporain 1883 - Contes cruels 1886 - Akëdysséril 1886 -… Shares: French drama, Continental european drama

Electra Sophocles · 1588 · ★ 3.7 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Shares: Théâtre, Continental european drama, Drama, History

Wilhelm Tell Friedrich Schiller · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out… Shares: Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

Seven against Thebes Aeschylus · 1812 · ★ 3.7 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters. Shares: Continental european drama, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history Thomas Carlyle · 1840 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The book, a series of six lectures that Carlyle delivered to London audiences in 1840, represents not so much soundly based ideas about the making of history as it does Carlyle’s view of how the world would be if powerful and inspired people were to have the power he thought they deserved. Shares: Heroes, History

Orestes Euripides · 1753 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the… Shares: Théâtre, Continental european drama, Drama

Le Balcon Jean Genet · 1956 · ★ 3.8 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary. These… Shares: French drama, Continental european drama, Drama

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris. Shares: Continental european drama, Drama

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