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Edmond Rostand was born on the 1st of April 1869 in Marseille, France; the son of Joseph Eugene Herbert Rostand, a prominent journalist and economist of Marseilles.
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EDMOND ROSTAND (1868-1918), dramaturge, poète et essayiste français, né à Marseille, fils de l´économiste Eugène Rostand et petit fils d´un maire de la ville. Père à son tour de l'écrivain, biologiste et académicien français Jean Rostand. Il fait des études de droit dans l´objectif de devenir diplomate. La licence obtenue, il s'inscrit au barreau sans y exercer, avant de se consacrer à la poésie. Avec la pièce « Les Romanesques », jouée á la Comédie Française, Rostand obtient son premier succès en 1894. Il donne ensuite deux drames poétiques, joués par Sarah Bernhardt : « La Princesse lointaine » (1895), tiré d'une légende médiévale, et « La Samaritaine » (1897), inspiré d'un thème religieux. Mais la gloire littéraire lui viendra de « Cyrano de Bergerac » (1897), l´une des uvres les plus connues du théâtre français. Il s´agit de l´histoire réelle d´un soldat et duelliste français du XVIIe siècle, lequel, après avoir reçu une blessure dans la guerre contre l´Espagne, devient dramaturge et romancier.
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Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival. Cyrano de Bergerac occupies a unique place in the modern theater. Deliberately disavowing realism and contemporary relevance, Edmond Rostands masterpiece represents a turning back in both time and spirit to an earlier age of high adventure and soaring idealism. Its magnificent hero, Cyranonoble of soul and grotesque in appearance, gallant Gascon soldier, brilliant wit, and timid lover, alternately comic, heroic, tragicrepresents one of the most challenging of all acting roles in its complexity and mercurial changes of mood. From its original production to the present day, Cyrano de Bergerac has enjoyed a charmed existence on the stage, its unflagging pace of action and eloquence of language enchanting critics and public alike. Here, in a superlative translation, is the ultimate triumph of the great French romantic traditiona work which, in the words of the French critic Lemaître, prolongs, unites and blends three centuries of comic fantasy and moral grace. Translated by Lowell Bair With an Introduction by Eteel Lawson and an Afterword by Cynthia B. Kerr
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Edmond Rostand was born on the 1st of April 1869 in Marseille, France; the son of Joseph Eugene Herbert Rostand, a prominent journalist and economist of Marseilles.
In 1890 appeared his first volume of verse, Les Musardises.
His first play, a burlesque, Les romanesques, was produced on the 21st of May 1894 at the Theatre Francais.
He took the motive of his second piece, La Princesse lointaine (Theatre de la Renaissance, 5th April 1895), from the story of the troubadour Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli.
The part of Melissande was created by Sarah Bernhardt, who also was the original Photine of La Samaritaine (Theatre de la Renaissance, 14th April 1897), a Biblical drama in three scenes taken from the gospel story of the woman of Samaria.
The production of his "heroic comedy" of Cyrano de Bergerac (28th December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin). The role of Cyrano was made memorable by the acting of Coquelin aîné, Richard Mansfield, and, on the screen (1950), Jose Ferrer.
For his hero he had drawn on french 17th-century history; in L'Aiglon he chose a subject from Napoleonic legend, suggested probably by Henri Welschinger's Roi de Rome, 1811-32 (1897), which contained much new information about the unhappy life of the duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon I and Marie Louise, under the surveillance of Metternich at the palace of Schonbrunn.
L'Aiglon, in six acts and in verse, was produced (15th March 1900) by Sarah Bernhardt at her own theatre, she herself undertaking the part of the duke of Reichstadt.
In 1902 Rostand was elected to the French Academy.
His Chantecler, produced in February 1910, was awaited with an interest (enhanced by considerable delay in the production) hardly equalled by the enthusiasm of its reception.
Lucien Guitry was in the title-role and Mme. Simone played the part of the pheasant, the play being a fantasy of bird and animal life, and the characters denizens of the farmyard and the woods.
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Rostand's wife, nee Rosemonde Etienette Gerard, published in 1890 Les Pipeaux, a volume of verse crowned by the Academy.
