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Plot summary. Hercule Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet who also plays music. However, he has an obnoxiously large nose, which causes him to doubt himself.
Cyrano's short life is poorly documented. Certain significant chapters of his life are known only from the Preface to the Histoire Comique par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac, Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) published in 1657, nearly two years after his death. [2]
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: / ˈrɒstɒ̃ /, [1] US: / rɔːˈstɒ̃, ˈrɒstænd /, [2][3] French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 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 ...
Chantecler. (play) Maude Adams in Chantecler. Chantecler is a verse play in four acts written by Edmond Rostand. [1][2] The play is notable in that all the characters are farmyard animals including the main protagonist, a chanticleer, or rooster. The play centers on the theme of idealism and spiritual sincerity, as contrasted with cynicism and ...
Rostand distilled this vulnerability in a single facial feature, but Cyrano’s monstrous nose is a metaphor for the ugliness, real or imagined, that holds people back from revealing the love they ...
L'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle ). The title role was created by Sarah Bernhardt in the play's premiere on 15 ...
Budget. $15.3 million. Box office. $41.3 million [1] Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French period comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Rappeneau. It stars Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet and Vincent Perez.
Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure comedy film based on the 1897 French Alexandrin verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It uses poet Brian Hooker 's 1923 English blank verse translation as the basis for its screenplay. [3] The film was the first motion picture version in English of Rostand's play, though there were ...