For 10 points, name this French playwright of Horace and Le Cid.
In one play by this author, Geronte is told that he cannot arrange a marriage for his son because the son already married a woman whom he knocked up, but Lucrece ends up marrying Dorante anyway. Another of his plays ends with Severe promising to petition Emperor Decius for religious toleration, after the martyrdom of Pauline's husband. In addition to The Liar and that play set in Roman-controlled Armenia, Polyeucte, he wrote about a character who loves Amelia and is pardoned for his plan to assassinate Augustus in Cinna and about a hero who kills Don Gomes and pursues Chimene in his adaptation of a Spanish epic. For 10 points, name this French playwright of Horace and Le Cid.
In one play by this author, Geronte is told that he cannot arrange a marriage for his son because the son already married a woman whom he knocked up, but Lucrece ends up marrying Dorante anyway.
Pierre {Corneille}