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.

Focus Student Edition Series:

Camara Laye: L'Enfant noir
Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean
Moliere: L'Ecole des femmes
Voltaire: Candide ou l'Optimisme

About the Authors

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 (A.B. Romance Languages, University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. French, U.C.L.A.) also studied at the Université de Genève. Her book on Surrealist poet and novelist René Crevel was published in Stanford French and Italian Studies (René Crevel: Le Pays des miroirs absolus). Dr. Rochester taught at U.C.L.A., Menlo College, and Stanford. She is a free-lance book editor and the author of college texts: Rendez-vous, Entrée en scène, Bonjour, ça va? and Vis-à-vis, as well as a trade text, Easy French Step-by-Step).

Dr. Rochester is the co-editor of the French literary classics series for Focus Publishing: Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir, Molière's L'École des femmes, Maupassant's Pierre et Jean, Voltaire's Candide, and Corneille's Le Cid. Her criticism includes studies of Simone de Beauvoir, Béatrix Beck, Dominique Desanti, and other women writers of the World War II era. She contributed English translations to Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (ed. Penelope Rosemont) and to the award-winning Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (eds. Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley). Dr. Rochester contributes to the UK-based online Literary Encyclopedia.

Reviews

Le Cid in the French Review (February 2011, pp. 635-636).