For 10 points, name this French playwright and rival of Jean Racine who wrote Le Cid.
At the end of one of this man's plays, a character is shocked to see his son killed, only to learn that his son has become an actor and that he has actually been watching a play. In that work, the magician Alcandre supplies a device that allows Pridamant to view the actions of his son Clindor from afar; that play was adapted into English by Tony Kushner. This author of The Comic Illusion produced a verse translation of The Imitation of Christ and wrote Three Discourses on Dramatic Poetry, in which he argued against an unthinking adherence to the Aristotelian unities, prompted by Cardinal Richelieu's plan to shatter the popularity of his most famous work. In that play, a champion carrying a bloody sword informs Chimène that her lover Don Rodrigue, the title Moor-fighting hero, had spared him. For 10 points, name this French playwright and rival of Jean Racine who wrote Le Cid.
At the end of one of this man's plays, a character is shocked to see his son killed, only to learn that his son has become an actor and that he has actually been watching a play.
Pierre Corneille