Auditioning in March 1838, she started at the Théâtre-Français in Pierre Corneille's Horace at the age of 17.

David's key 1784 " Oath of the Horatii " portrays an event from this story, continuing French interest in it that had also produced Pierre Corneille's 1640 stage play Horace.

She went to London in March 1664 with a nearly completed translation of Corneille's Horace, but died of smallpox.

The amazing success of Corneille's Le Cid in 1637 and Horace in 1640 would bring the tragedy back into fashion, where it would remain for the rest of the century.

) that prefigures the dramatic debates and cult of heroism of Pierre Corneille ( Horace, Le Cid ) and Montchrestien's emotional women ( touched by dreams and bad omens ) also mirror Corneille's tragic female characters.

An exchange in Le Cid ( 1. 3. 215 – 226 ), by Pierre Corneille, has been called " an excellent instance of Corneille's skilful handling of ' stichomythia '".

It has been generally assumed, partly because of a forged letter long accepted as Corneille's, that Rotrou was his generous defender in this matter.

Corneille's tragedies were strangely un-tragic ( his first version of Le Cid was even listed as a tragicomedy ), for they had happy endings.

Some of his finest tragedies were written for her, but her repertoire was not confined to them, and many an indifferent play-like Thomas Corneille's Ariene and Comte d ' Essex-owed its success to her natural manner of acting, and her pathetic rendering of the hapless heroine.

Harrison's experimental tack piano suite Incidental Music to Corneille's ' Cinna ( 1955-7 ), in 7-limit Just Intonation, was created for a puppet opera that was never performed, and based on the story of a Roman general as told by the French Baroque playwright Corneille.

Dryden's sources for An Evening's Love include Thomas Corneille's comedy Le Feint Astrologue, Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Ibrahim, ou l ' Illustre Bassa, and Calderón's comedy El Astrologo fingido, as well as several other French, Spanish, Italian, and English works.

Corneille's heroes, for example, have been labeled by modern critics as vainglorious, extravagant and prideful ; however, contemporary aristocratic readers would see these characters ( and their actions ) as representative of nobility.

* Corneille's Le Cid was criticised for having Rodrigue appear before Chimène after having killed her father, a violation of moral codes.

The history of the public and critical reaction to Corneille's Le Cid may be found in other articles ( he was criticized for his use of sources, his violation of good taste, and for other irregularities not conforming to Aristotian or Horacian rules ), but its impact was stunning.

( This hall is the setting for the first act of Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, and Rotrou's name is mentioned-as is Corneille's ) With few exceptions, the only events recorded of Rotrou's life are the successive appearances of his plays, and his enrolment in 1635 in the band of five poets who had the duty of turning Richelieu's dramatic ideas into shape.

* Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid, is first performed.

* January 24 – Pierre Corneille's Oedipe premieres in Paris.

The intensity of this " war of pamphlets " was heightened severely by Corneille's boastful poem Excuse À Ariste, in which he rambled and boasted about his talents, while Corneille claimed no other author could be a rival.

Scudéry, a close friend of Mariet at the time, did not stoop to Corneille's level of ' distastefulness ', but instead continued to pillory Le Cid and its violations.

Corneille's Irony.

* Hubert, J. D. Corneille's Performative Metaphors.

The first great French comedy in modern French literature, Corneille's Le menteur ( The Liar ), was confessedly modeled after it.

* Katherine Philips ' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.

Salvi's libretto originated with Pierre Corneille's play Pertharite, roi des Lombards ( 1653 ), based on the history of Perctarit, king of the Lombards in the 7th century.

* Famous playwright Pierre Corneille's lesser-known but classic tragedies, Médée ( 1635 ) and Circé ( 1675 ), popularized warlocks and witches as the deus ex machina of French theater.

He also sought a reconciliation with de Corneille's supporters, many of whom were from the riding's Jewish community.

* Pompey the Great ( 1664 ); adaptation and translation of Corneille's La mort de Pompée ( 1644 ); together with Charles Sackville ( later Earl of Dorset ), Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, and Sir Edward Filmer.

In the same year his translation of Pierre Corneille's Rodogune as The Syrian Queen was also declined by George Colman.

An illustration to Corneille's play Cinna showing Augustus granting clemency to Cinna.

In 1641 he published a Dutch version of Corneille's The Cid, a tragi-comedy, and in 1647 his most famous work, the pastoral romance of Batavische Arcadia, which he had written ten years before.

Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.

A similar change between the earlier odes of Horace, in which he declares his epicurean indifference to affairs of state, and the great national odes of the third book has been ascribed by some to the same guidance.

* Horace, Satires i. 8. 14-" nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus atque / aggere in aprico spatiari, quo modo tristes / albis informem spectabant ossibus agrum ,/ cum mihi non tantum furesque feraeque suetae / hunc vexare locum curae sunt atque labori / quantum carminibus quae versant atque venenis / humanos animos: has nullo perdere possum / nec prohibere modo, simul ac vaga luna decorum / protulit os, quin ossa legant herbasque nocentis.

Jerome ( d. 420 ) complained, " What has Horace to do with the Psalms, Virgil with the Gospels, Cicero with the Apostles?

Roots reggae veteran Horace Andy has featured on all of their regular studio albums.

Clarabelle is one of Minnie Mouse's best friends and is usually depicted as the girlfriend of Horace Horsecollar, although she has also been paired with Goofy occasionally.

Clara has been a member of Mickey's original farmyard gang since the beginning of his career, although she is seen less often than Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar.

In recent years, Horace has more commonly appeared in Mickey Mouse Works and Disney's House of Mouse.

Horace has never really been more than a supporting character, though he has starred in numerous European comic book stories of his own.

Of the former class, the epithalamia of Catullus, founded on an imitation of Pindar, present us with examples of strophe, antistrophe and epode ; and it has been observed that the celebrated ode of Horace, beginning Quem virum aut heroa lyra vel acri, possesses this triple character.

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

A widow who brokers marriages and other transactions in Yonkers, New York at the turn of the 20th Century, she sets her sights on local merchant Horace Vandergelder, who has hired her to find him a wife.

Robert E. Bell Middle School has the bulldog as its mascot while Horace Greeley High School has the quaker as its mascot.

The small W. Horace Carter Newspaper Museum in Tabor City at the Tabor-Loris Tribune offices has exhibits on Carter's life and work.

The descent of the Spencer family from the Medieval Despencers has been challenged, especially by Horace Round in his essay on The Rise of the Spencers.

" A similar witticism has been attributed to Horace Lamb ( who had published a noted text book on Hydrodynamics )— his choice being quantum electrodynamics ( instead of relativity ) and turbulence.

" In two satires set during the Saturnalia, Horace has a slave offer sharp criticism to his master.

* Places named after him include: Greeley, Pennsylvania, Greeley, Colorado, Greeley, Texas, Greeley, Kansas, Greeley County, Kansas ( where there is also a city of Horace, and the county seat is Tribune ), and Greeley County, Nebraska ( which also has a town named Horace ).

* Horace Greeley's The American Conflict ( 1864 ) is the source for President Andrew Jackson allegedly saying, after the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, " John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!

His wife Jessie ( Fawcett ) has begun a relationship with a youth minister named Horace.