Sign-In
Cart
Cyrano de Bergerac - A Classic Romantic Drama of Wit, Courage, and Unrequited Love
Hardcover
Entertainment & Performing ArtsPlays
ISBN13: 9781515428800
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A brilliant romantic drama of swordplay, poetry, wit, and heartbreaking devotion, Cyrano de Bergerac is Edmond Rostand's beloved masterpiece of courage, eloquence, and unspoken love.
Cyrano is a soldier, poet, duelist, and fearless man of words, famous for his dazzling wit and equally famous for the enormous nose that makes him believe himself unworthy of romantic happiness. Though he loves the beautiful Roxane with all the intensity of his soul, he hides his feelings behind bravado, mockery, and sacrifice. When Roxane confesses her love for the handsome but inarticulate Christian, Cyrano becomes the secret voice behind Christian's courtship, pouring his own passion into letters and speeches that win Roxane's heart while denying himself the chance to be known.
First performed in 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac became an immediate triumph and remains one of the great works of French theater. Rostand combines comedy, romance, adventure, and tragedy with extraordinary theatrical energy, creating a hero whose pride, generosity, and verbal brilliance have captivated audiences for generations. The play's famous balcony scene, its duels of both sword and language, and its final vision of honor in defeat make it a lasting celebration of style, loyalty, and impossible love.
At once swashbuckling entertainment and deeply moving character study, Cyrano de Bergerac speaks to anyone who has hidden vulnerability behind performance or loved with more courage than hope. Its power lies in the contrast between Cyrano's outward flamboyance and inward loneliness, between the mask of confidence and the ache of self-doubt. For readers of classic drama, French literature, romantic tragedy, and heroic adventure, Rostand's play remains vivid, funny, painful, and unforgettable.
8 different editions
Also available
Also in
Plays
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Paperback
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Kaufman, Moises
Fondakowski, Leigh
Pierotti, Greg
Paperback
FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
Arup, Jens
Ibsen, Henrik
McFarlane, James
Paperback
A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition (Large Print Edition)
Thomas Nelson
Hardcover
Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
Hingley, Ronald
Chekhov, Anton
Paperback
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Wilder, Thornton
Paperback