VÁŠNE V CORNEILLOVEJ DRÁME CID
PASSIONS IN CORNEILLE‘S DRAMA LE CID

Summary/Abstract: Based on the comparative analysis of two similar dramatic situations (Hugo: Les Misérables and Corneille: Le Cid), article questions how can they later develop in entirely different ways. In search for the better understanding argument narrows later to Corneille and concentrates on the ruptures in his versification – assuming that ruptures and silence have to do with respiration and as such they are the symptoms of passion. At the end of her article author concludes that in the case of Le Cid it is common to overvalue the storyline and dramatic process. But – while the conflict of passions in Corneille´s drama is omnipresent – author refuses to take habitual interpretation for granted and pointing to non-classicist traces of the drama, she suggests that in this drama, as in the most intense moments of life, we are called at the same time towards life and death.

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