Cornbury
EDWARD HYDE, lord, English governor of New York, was the son of the Earl of Clarendon, and one of the first officers who deserted the army of King James. King William, in grati- (1629), 9), "Clitandre," "La Veuve," "La Suivante," etc., announced the advent of a dramatist of a high order. In 1635 he entered the field of tragedy with "Medea"; but it was not till the appearance of his next work, the famous "Cid," that Corneille's claim was recognized to a place among the great tragic poets. After the "Cid" appeared in rapid succession "Horace" (1639) ; "Cinna" (1639), his works which show masterpiece, according to Voltaire; and "Polyeucte" (1640) ; works which show to Voltaire; and "Polyeucte" (1640 ); Corneille's genius at its best. Besides his dramas he wrote some elegies, sonnets, epistles, etc., as well as three prose essays on dramatic poetry. He died in 1684.