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Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus, and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France.
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With energetically witty English verse throughout, Anthony Burgess translation of this well-loved 19th-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Derek Jacobi, then in the revival with Antony Sher in 1997, as well as providing the subtitles for the film version with Gerard Depardieu.
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Excerpt from The Romancers: A Comedy in Three Acts He. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death; I am content so thou wilt have it so. I'll say yon gray is not the morning's eye; 'tis but the pale re?ex of Cynthia's brow; Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat The vaulty heaven so high above our heads; I have more care to stay than will to go Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. Syl. Oh, no! I won't have him talk of that; if he does, I shall cry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Widely considered the most popular modern French play, Cyrano de Bergerac has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897. Cyrano, a quarrelsome, hot-tempered swordsman, as famous for his dueling skills and pugnacity as for his inordinately long nose, is hopelessly enamored of the beautiful Roxane. She, in turn, is in love with Christian, a handsome but inarticulate and slow-witted suitor. Asked for help by Christian in wooing Roxane, Cyrano pours out his heart in romantic dialogues delivered under cover of night and dense foliage and through ardent love letters written in the name of Christian. Presented here in a rich blank verse translation by poet Louis Untermeyer, this beloved romantic comedy will be warmly received by theater buffs as well as students and teachers of drama and literature.
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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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This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero--Cyrano De Bergerac--and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage. This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.
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Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus, and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France.
Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France.
He began his literary career with a volume of light and graceful verse, Les Musardises (1890), which he presented to his wife, the poet Rosemond Gérard, Gerard, as a wedding gift. In the midst of the period of Naturalism, he revived with great success the Romantic drama in verse.
Les Romanesques (1894) presents two young lovers in a poetic atmosphere reminiscent of Alfred de Musset and Shakespeare. La Princesse lointaine (1895) dramatizes the story of the old ProvençalProvencal poet, Geoffroy Rudel, while La Samaritaine (1897) deals with the Biblical episode of Christ and the woman from Samaria.
With the phenomenal success of Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), Rostand became one of the best known of European playwrights. L'Aiglon (1900) found less favor with the public than did Cyrano. Chantecler, which followed in 1910, was an interesting but not too successful experiment in dramatizing the animal fable, for Parisian theatre-goers, while appreciating the satire of literary and social life in Paris, found it difficult to take seriously the actors costumed to represent cocks and hens.
The lyric passages of this, as of Rostand's other plays, are brilliant examples of versification.
Rostand was elected to the Academie Francaise at the comparatively early age of 33.
Rostand died in Paris on December 2, 1918.
L'Aiglon , a poetic drama in six acts, first produced in 1900. Staged in a setting of Viennese court life in the precarious year 1830, L'Aiglon deals with the ambitions of the Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon I by his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria.
The son, popularly known as L'Aiglon, "the Eaglet, " is being held in Vienna by Metternich and the Allies as a hostage and as a threat to France. He wishes to return to France to lead the country to new victories worthy of the First Empire, but his frail body proves unequal to the task and he dies of consumption.
The heroic Napolenic legend, background for the play, is evoked in the person of the old grenadier, Flambeau. In spite of its undue length the play has enjoyed great popularity, to which the beauty of its lyrical passages and its general heroic character have largely contributed. Sarah Bernhardt created the title role in France and Maude Adams in the United States.
Cyrano De Bergerac was first produced in Paris in 1897.
It is the finest work of its author and one of the greatest successes of the French stage of the 19th century. In the setting of Paris of Louis XIII, Cyrano, ugly and disfigured by a grotesque nose, does not dare, for fear of ridicule, to declare his love for his beautiful cousin, the précieuseprecieuse Roxane, but secretly pays her court through the young and handsome Christian, his friend.
Roxane discovers the subterfuge only just before the death of Cyrano.
Many scenes such as those of the balcony in the third act and that of the autumn evening in the convent garden are justly famous for their beauty and poetry.
The entire play is filled with magnificent lyrical passages, brilliant tirades, wit, pathos, and a remarkable vitality.
Cyrano, who in reality was a soldier and minor writer under Louis XIII, has become in his recreation by Rostand symbolic of the brave Gascon, the soldier-poet, the dread of all his enemies, and the ideal of the précieuses. precieuses. The well-known actor Coquelin aînéaine (the elder) created the title role and gave it a memorable interpretation.
Richard Mansfield and Walter Hampden made the same role famous in the United States, where the play has for many years enjoyed the greatest popularity.
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He brought life and vitality into the moribund poetic drama and the almost extinct romantic tragedy. His felicitous choice of subjects, his skill in handling both the French language and French verse forms contributed in great part to his success, which later criticism has questioned but not seriously undermined. He stressed the importance of the poet in national life, as a teacher and a leader.
In 1902, Rostand became the youngest writer to be elected as a member to the Académie française.
Rostand was married to the poet and playwright Rosemonde-Étienette Gérard who, in 1890, published Les Pipeaux: a volume of verse commended by the Academy. The couple had two sons, Jean and Maurice.