Clitandre

Clitandre is the second Play of Pierre Corneille written in 1630.

The part entered to the repertory of the Comédie-Française only in 1996 a setting in scene of Muriel Mayette (become administrator of the Comédie-Française in 2006). The immense complexity of the intrigue justifies that the Comédie-Française put as much time.

Pierre Corneille wrote itself some critical remarks on her work:

“ For the constitution it is so disordered that you have sorrow to guess who are the first actors. Rosidor and Caliste are those which appear more by the advantage of their character and their mutual love; but their action finishes as of the first act with their danger, and what they say to the third and fifth makes only show their faces, waiting until the others complete… Clitandre around which seems to turn the node of the part, since the first actions will do it guilty and the last to justify it, can about it be only a one quite tedious hero who is introduced only for déclamer in prison, and does not speak even with this mistress, of which scorn are used as color to make it pass for criminal. All the fifth act languishes…

the monologs are too long and too frequent in this part; it was a beauty in this time. The actors wished them and believed to appear to with it with more advantage ”.