Editing Pierre Corneille (section)

===Later plays===
Even though Corneille was prolific after his return to the stage, writing one play a year for the 14 years after 1659, his later plays did not have the same success as those of his earlier career. Other writers were beginning to gain popularity. In 1670 Corneille and [[Jean Racine]], one of his dramatic rivals, were challenged to write plays on the same incident. Each playwright was unaware that the challenge had also been issued to the other. When both plays were completed, it was generally acknowledged that Corneille's ''[[Tite et Bérénice]]'' (1671) was inferior to Racine's play (''[[Bérénice]]''). [[Molière]] was also prominent at the time and Corneille even composed the [[comedy]] ''[[Psyché (play)|Psyché]]'' (1671) in collaboration with him (and [[Philippe Quinault]]). Most of the plays that Corneille wrote after his return to the stage were tragedies. They included ''{{Interlanguage link|La Toison d'or (play){{!}}La Toison d'or|fr|3=La Toison d'or}}'' (''The Golden Fleece'', 1660), ''[[Sertorius (1662 play)|Sertorius]]'' (1662), ''[[Othon (play)|Othon]]'' (1664), ''[[Agésilas]]'' (1666), and ''[[Attila (Corneille)|Attila]]'' (1667).

He wrote his last piece ''[[Suréna]]'' in 1674; it was a complete failure. After this, he retired from the stage for the final time and died at his home in Paris in 1684. His grave in the [[Saint-Roch, Paris|Église Saint-Roch]] went without a monument until 1821.