Edmond Rostand
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Description
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy The Fantasticks. Source: [Edmond]( on Wikipedia
Books
Cyrano de Bergerac
New National Theatre, W.H. Rapley, manager, T. Arthur Smith, treasurer. Farewell American tour of Madame Sarah Bernhardt and M. Coquelin, under the direction of Mr. Maurice Grau, managing director of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, "Cyrano de Bergerac," drame en cinq acts et en vers de Edmond Rostand. Scenery painted by Mr. Homer Emons.
Cyrano de Bergerac and related readings
Cyrano, a master swordsman and poet, feels he can not woo his beloved Roxane due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian, Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane for him. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mind - and not for his beauty - which of her two suitors will finally possess her heart?"
Cyrano de Bergerac / Romeo and Juliet
Contains: [Romeo and Juliet]( Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.