Belcar et Méliane (1608) Alexandre Hardy (1572–c.1632) Hardy reputedly wrote 600 plays; only 34 have survived. Scédase, ou l'hospitalité violée (tragedy) 1624 La Force du sang (tragicomedy) 1625 (the plot is taken from a Cervantes short story) Lucrèce, ou l'Adultère puni (tragedy) 1628 Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589–1670) Les Bergeries (pastoral) 1625 Théophile de Viau (1590–1626) Les Amours tragiques de Pyrame et Thisbé (tragedy) 1621 François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592–1662) Didon la chaste ou Les Amours de Hiarbas (tragedy) 1642 Jean Mairet (1604–1686) La Sylve (pastoral tragicomedy) c.1626 La Silvanire, ou La Morte vive (pastoral tragicomedy) 1630 Les Galanteries du Duc d'Ossonne Vice-Roi de Naples (comedy) 1632 La Sophonisbe (tragedy) 1634 La Virginie (tragicomedy) 1636 Tristan L'Hermite (1601–1655) Mariamne (tragedy) 1636 Penthée (tragedy) 1637 La Mort de Seneque (tragedy) 1644 La Mort de Crispe (tragedy) 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 Theater under Louis XIV By the 1660s, classicism had imposed itself on French theater. The key theoretical work on theater from this period was François Hedelin, abbé d'Aubignac's Pratique du théâtre (1657), and this work reveals to what degree "French classicism" was willing to modify the rules