Rodrigo loves Chimène, and she loves him, until her father, the proud Count de Gormas, strikes Rodrigo’s aged father Don Diego. Honour demands that the son avenge the insult, and the man he must fight is the father of the woman he means to marry. This edition gives a close, literal prose rendering with a preface on the historical Cid.
The 1637 tragedy that set Paris arguing for a generation, here in a faithful line-by-line English version. Download the free EPUB.