''Sertorius'' is a play by
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...
on the
revolt by Quintus Sertorius, created for the
Théâtre du Marais of
Paris for 25 February 1662, afterwards published in July of the same year. The literary scholar
George Saintsbury
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th centu ...
considered ''Sertorius'' to be "one of Corneille’s finest plays", and declared that "the characters of Aristie, Viriate and Sertorius himself
..are not to be surpassed in grandeur of thought, felicity of design or appropriateness of language".
George Saintsbury
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th centu ...
. "Corneille." '' Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.''
Quotation
«''On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé''
''Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.''»
“It is hard to hate what once has been well loved
And a passion ill snuffed out can readily be rekindled.”
(Act I, scene 3)
References
External links
Sertorius at French wikisource''Sertorius'' and its performanceson the sit
CÉSAR
Plays by Pierre Corneille
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