Corneille: Le Cid

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Description

Corneille’s Le Cid, the powerful, classic, seventeenth-century tragicomedy, has been designed in this edition to help English-speaking students approach the original French, with an introductory essay, language and culture notes, and study questions, all in one convenient volume.

Features

Text is in French and includes linguistic and cultural notes from the time period, exercises and vocabulary lists (page by page) in addition to the play, in keeping with the other books in the series.  Prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, this book includes an introduction (in French) to the author and the work, the complete novel with both linguistic and cultural notes (French-French), a current bibliography and questions in the AP* format to facilitate study.

Market

The Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture.

About the Author

Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She is Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Canisus College. Dr. Angelini has won research grants from the U.S., French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences. / Myrna Bell Rochester lives in Palo Alto, California. Her degrees are from the University of Chicago (Romance Languages) and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her Ph.D. in French. She studied at the Université de Genève during a four-year stay.

Myrna Bell Rochester has taught at UCLA and at Stanford University. Co-author of college textbooks and educational materials, she also lectures and publishes on topics in modern literature With Natalie Schorr, she prepared the recent Focus Publishing edition of Camara Laye's "L'enfant noir".

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