The title character is opposed by Lacus and Martian in this author's work about the Emperor Otho, and one of his dramas begins with Clindor's father Pridamante approached by [?] Dorante in order to use the magician Alcendre to find her daughter. In another work, Maxime is enlisted by the title character to carry out a plan to assassinate Emperor Augustus. In addition to The Comic Illusion and Cinna this author that is the namesake of a dilemma involving harm to a person 
The title character is opposed by Lacus and Martian in this author's work about the Emperor Otho, and one of his dramas begins with Clindor's father Pridamante approached by [?] Dorante in order to use the magician Alcendre to find her daughter. In another work, Maxime is enlisted by the title character to carry out a plan to assassinate Emperor Augustus. In addition to The Comic Illusion and Cinna this author that is the namesake of a dilemma involving harm to a person or a loved one also wrote about Armenian Christianity by having the title character martyr himself for Pauline and Felix in Polyeucte. Another play ends with the marriage of Chimene and the title character as ordered by Don Fernand. For ten points, name this man who created Rodrigue in Le Cid.
The title character is opposed by Lacus and Martian in this author's work about the Emperor Otho, and one of his dramas begins with Clindor's father Pridamante approached by [?]
Pierre {Corneille}