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Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Rostand, Edmond

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1548084956
ISBN13: 9781548084950
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 14 2017
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the greatest dramas ever written, this story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival is beloved around the world. Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist from the seventeenth century. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see. This work is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) was a French poet and dramatist. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it in five acts. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene. The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word panache into the English language. Cyrano is in fact famed for his panache, and the play ends with him saying My panache. just before his death. Cyrano de Bergerac is a novel highly recommended to read .

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