In the canon
Polyeuctus, The Liar, Nicomedia
Pierre Corneille
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1643
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 250
The idols come down in pieces at a Roman altar, and the man who broke them was baptised that same day and is already impatient for the sword. Polyeucte hands its hero everything worth living for, a wife learning to love him after giving up the soldier she wanted, a governor for a father, a great name in Armenia, then watches him walk past all of it toward the executioner.
I am a Christian.
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