Cyrano De Bergerac, Savinien De(1619–1655)
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a soldier, man of letters, and freethinker, was born in Paris, where he died thirty-six years later; he resembled only...
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A poet, novelist, and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac was born Savinien de Cyrano in Paris on 6 March 1619 to Abel de Cyrano and his wife, Espérance de Bellanger. Abel de Cyrano was a landowner ...
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If Edmond Rostand is known throughout the world today, it is for his play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897; translated, 1921). Although he wrote a total of seven plays and three volumes of poetry, he has been...
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In the following essay, Aldington attempts to distinguish between myth and fact in regard to Cyrano's life and career.
I. the Legend of Cyrano
The legend of Cyrano de Bergerac began, one mig...
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In the excerpt which follows, Spink examines the philosophical underpinnings of Cyrano's works.
Savinien de Cyrano, known as Cyrano de Bergerac, was one of the most daring speculative thinke...
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In the following excerpt, Lanius examines the fantastic images found in Cyrano's letters.
The most familiar arrangement of Cyrano's letters is Paul Lacroix' three-part division...
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In the excerpt below, Harth examines Cyrano's treatment of miracles in his works, noting the author's consistently skeptical view of religion.
The consistent denunciation of miracles ...
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In the essay below, DeJean explores the dialogic narrative structure of Les Etats et empires de la lune, which leaves unresolved the contradictions between the different philosophies the work examines...
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In the following excerpt, Mason outlines the materialist philosophy Cyrano promotes in his stories of space travel.
To most people, Cyrano's work is best known for its science-fiction qualit...
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In the following essay, Goux explores the reversal of earthly values in the utopian society on the moon depicted in L'Autre Monde.
The belligerent narrator of Cyrano de Bergerac's L&#...
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In the essay below, MacPhail analyzes Cyrano's rejection of “the marvellous and the verisimilar” in L'Autre Monde, arguing that the author saw them as literary conventions ...
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In the following essay, Romanowski argues that Cyrano joined together elements of both materialist and hermetic philosophy in L'Autre Monde.
1. Cyrano's Fiction in Context: Competing S...
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In the novel Cyrano Bergerac, Edmond Rostand creates a dynamic in Cyrano. Cyrano possesses an abundant number of traits including intelligence and courage. Throughout the novel the character uses th...
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Actress Mala Powers, who played Roxanne to Jose Ferrer's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and starred in other films of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 76.Powers died Monday of complications from leukem...
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For Gregory Pavlick and Maryann Sugar, their 52nd birthdays came with bright hopes dashed by darkened Broadway theaters.Both stood disappointed on West 52nd Street after traveling to New York to ce...
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The annual "Lucky Shops" event, billed by Lucky Magazine as the "ultimate shopping experience," returns to New York Oct. 26-27.The fourth annual event benefits Baby Buggy, the nonprofit organizatio...
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Today is Thursday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2006. There are three days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 28, 1856, the 28th president of the Un...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several Broadway producers
sued striking stagehands for $35 million and a New York judge
Wednesday separately ordered a theater to allow "Dr. Seuss'
How the Grinch Stole Chri...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge Wednesday
ordered a theater owner to reopen "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch
Stole Christmas! The Musical" despite a strike by stagehands
that has shut down most of...
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Today is Friday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2007. There are three days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 28, 1917, the New York Evening Mail published "A Neglected Anniversary," ...
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"Ratatouille" may be the first Pixar movie that is so advanced, so sophisticated, it doesn't feel like it was made for kids.On a fundamental level, sure, children will probably enjoy watching the a...
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"Ratatouille" may be the first Pixar movie that is so advanced, so sophisticated, it doesn't feel like it was made for kids.On a fundamental level, sure, children will probably enjoy watching the a...
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Cyrano De Bergerac, Savinien De (1619–1655)
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Critical Essay by Richard Aldington
The Powers of Cyrano
Actress Mala Powers dies at 76
