CYRANO de BERGERAC A HEROIC COMEDY Edmond Rostand SCARCE 1st Edition 1898

Description: Cyrano de Bergerac is a dramatic play written by Edmond Rostand. It was first produced in 1897 and was published in 1898 by Lamson, Wolffe and Company, translated into English by Howard Thayer Kingsbury. The play, a Heroic Comedy, recounts the story of a French nobleman of the 17th century who was known for his adventuresome life and enormous nose. Edmund Rostand met someone who was not only crucial in encouraging his love of poetry, but who also, unwittingly, gave him a major theme of Cyrano de Bergerac. The student supervisor for his class, the “pion”, was known to the boys as “Pif-Luisant”: “Shiny Conk”, because of his glowing-red nose. This failed poet had turned to drink to console himself. Edmond felt sorry for the pion and became his friend. He discovered that in life as in fairy stories, an ugly exterior can hide a noble soul – a contrast he would dramatise in Cyrano de Bergerac. Pif-Luisant discussed poetry with Rostand and encouraged him to break the traditional rules of verse as still taught at the college. What would Cyrano de Bergerac have been like if Rostand had not learnt to create his own form of dramatic verse, with its verve and broken lines, its witty rhymes and puns? Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac must be one of the best-known and best-loved plays in the world. It has been translated into almost every language and there can hardly be a day in the year when Rostand’s masterpiece is not being performed somewhere or other.

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