{{Short description|French dramatist}} {{French literature sidebar}} '''Pierre du Ryer''' (c.1606 – 6 November 1658) was a French dramatist.
== Life and works== Du Ryer was born in Paris in about 1606. His early comedies are loosely modelled on those of Alexandre Hardy, but after the production of the ''Cid'' (1636) he became an imitator of Pierre Corneille; this was the period when he produced his masterpiece ''Scévole'', probably in 1644 (the date generally given is 1646). ''Alcione'' (1638) was so popular that the abbé d'Aubignac knew it by heart, and Queen Christina of Sweden is said to have had it read to her three times in one day.<ref name=eb>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Du Ryer, Pierre |volume=8 |page=712 |inline=1}}</ref>
Du Ryer was a prolific dramatist. Among his other works were ''Saül'' (printed 1642), and a comedy, ''Les Vendanges de Suresnes'' (1635 or 1636). He died in Paris in 1658.<ref name=eb/>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Lancaster, Henry Carrington (1912) [https://archive.org/details/pierreduryerdram00lancuoft ''Pierre Du Ryer, dramatist''] Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.], {{OCLC|684507}} * Gaines, James F. (1988) ''Pierre Du Ryer and his tragedies: from envy to liberation'' Libr. Droz, Geneva, {{OCLC|18089534}}, being volume 257 of the ''Histoire des idées et critique littéraire'' series
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Pierre du Ryer}}
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