Cyrano de Bergerac (Bantam Classics reissue)
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...
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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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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553213607 (0553213601)
Publish date: February 1st 1959
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
France,
French Literature
This is a strange combination of things. It is a play from the late 19th century written in verse. It is sort of a romantic-comedy and sort of a tragedy at the same time. It has some quite clever scenes. However, it is sort of quite a bit fluffy and is written as a crowd-pleaser. Despite the fa...
Because my family has always had loads of books, we have a special closet that contains all the ones that won't fit in the bookshelves. Unlike places I live - which I've always crammed full of bookshelves - my mother likes to have books kept in certain areas. So there are very nice looking old books...
Vay anam!!! Where to start!?My poor, poor Cyrano! I saw it on TV as a (very small)kid, but never read the Play. Never did I realise, what I had missed all those years!!ONE1!I have always been of the believe, that people with a beautiful Mind are a thousand times better to love than people with a bea...
I love this play beyond the telling. It's one of the few single plays I own. The plays I keep on my shelves are complete plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Oscar Wilde, some Moliere, a collection of Spanish classics such as de Barca's La Vida Es Un Sueno and this--one of the few French plays that Ame...
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![Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts [With DVD] - Edmond Rostand, Lowell Bair, Eteel Lawson, William R. Pace](http://booklikes.com/photo/max/100/150/upload/books/7/5/efaa65c57bafd7f4615110942ea888ce.jpg)
 by Edmond Rostand, Brian Hooker, Walter Hampden, now listed on BookLikes)