19 With the comic playwright Molière and the great tragedian Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille (1606–84) was one

19 With the comic playwright Molière and the great tragedian Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille (1606–84) was one of the triumvirate of great playwrights of the seventeenth century. Corneille in his tragedies was greatly concerned with notions of duty and honor, while his comedies often deal with problems of love and marriage.