Cyrano De Bergerac: Heroic Comedy in Five Acts - Hardcover

Rostand, Edmond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899682553 ISBN 13: 9780899682556

Publisher: Lightyear Pr, 1984

Synopsis

Rostand's classic romantic drama portraying the swordsman and poet

About this title

About the Author:

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. He was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. He studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France. In the 1900s, he came to live in the Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains in the French Basque Country looking for a cure for his pleurisy. The house is now a heritage site and a museum of Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts. Rostand died in 1918, a victim of the flu pandemic, and is buried in the Cimetière de Marseille.

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lightyear Pr
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0899682553
• ISBN 13: 9780899682556
• Binding: Hardcover