- 1645 The Parasite - 1653 Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) La Bague de l'oubli (comedy) - 1629 La Belle Alphrède (comedy) - 1639 Laure persécutée (tragicomedy) - 1637 Le Véritable saint Genest (tragedy) - 1645 Venceslas (tragicomedy) - 1647 Cosroès (tragedy) - 1648 Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) Mélite (comedy) - 1629 Clitandre (tragicomedy, later changed to tragedy) - 1631 La Veuve (comedy) - 1631 La Place Royale (comedy) - 1633 Médée (tragedy) - 1635 L'Illusion comique (comedy) - 1636 Le Cid (tragicomedy, later changed to tragedy) - 1637 Horace (tragedy) - 1640 Cinna (tragedy) - 1640 Polyeucte ("Christian" tragedy) - c.1641 La Mort de Pompée (tragedy) - 1642 Le Menteur (comedy) - 1643 Rodogune, princesse des Parthes (tragedy) - 1644 Héraclius, empereur d'Orient (tragedy) - 1647 Don Sanche d'Aragon ("heroic" comedy) - 1649 Nicomède (tragedy) - 1650 Sertorius (tragedy) - 1662 Sophonisbe (tragedy) - 1663 Othon (tragedy) - 1664 Tite et Bérénice ("heroic" comedy) - 1670 Suréna, général des Parthes (tragedy) - 1674 Pierre du Ryer (1606–1658) Lucrèce (tragedy) - 1636 Alcione - 1638 Scévola (tragedy) - 1644 Jean Desmarets (1595–1676) Les Visionnaires (comedy) - 1637 Erigone (prose tragedy) - 1638 Scipion (verse tragedy) - 1639 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (1604–1676) La Cyminde - 1642 La Pucelle d'Orléans - 1642 Zénobie (tragedy) - 1647, written with the intention of affording a model in which the strict rules of the drama were served. Le Martyre de Sainte Catherine (tragedy) - 1650 Paul Scarron (1610–1660) Jodelet - 1645 Don Japhel d'Arménie - 1653 Isaac de Benserade (c.1613-1691) Cléopâtre (tragedy) - 1635 Samuel Chappuzeau - 1625 - 1701 Le Cercle des femmes ou le Secret du Lit Nuptial 1656 (Comedy, prose) Damon et Pythias, ou le Triomphe de l'Amour et de l'Amitié (tragi-comedy) 1657 Armetzar ou les Amis ennemis (tragi-comedy) 1658 Le Riche mécontent ou le noble imaginaire (Comedy)1660 L'Académie des Femmes, (Farce, in verse) Paris, 1661 Le Colin-Maillard (Farce, Comedie Facetieuse), Paris, 1662 L'Avare duppé, ou l'Homme de paille, (comedy) Paris, 1663 Les Eaux de Pirmont - 1669 17th-century classicism The expression classicism as it applies to literature implies notions of order, clarity, moral purpose and good taste. Many of these notions are directly inspired by the works of Aristotle and Horace and by classical Greek and Roman masterpieces. In French classical theatre (also called French classicism), a play should follow the Three Unities: Unity of place: the setting should not change. In practice,