This man humiliates the Counts of Carrion by grabbing an escaped lion by the neck and putting it back in its cage.
A poem about this man opens with him looking at an open gate and an unlocked door and "sorely weeping." George de Scudery and others critiqued a play about his man for fitting an implausible number of events into a single day. This man humiliates the Counts of Carrion by grabbing an escaped lion by the neck and putting it back in its cage. In a 1636 play, this man kills the count of Gormas, a fact which becomes an obstacle as he seeks to marry Chimène. The most famous play titled for this character skips over his service to the king of Saragossa on the Moorish side. For 10 points, name this subject of a Pierre Corneille play and a medieval Spanish poema, a legendary exiled knight of the Reconquista.
A poem about this man opens with him looking at an open gate and an unlocked door and "sorely weeping.
El Cid [or Le Cid; or Mio Cid; or El Cid Campeador; or Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar; or Don Rodrigue]