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Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

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Quotations
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Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes
605 words, approx. 2 pages
Quotes from Cyrano de Begerac by Edmond Rostand, translated by Getrude Hall, Barnes and Nobles Classics 2004 edition. Cyrano de Bergerac is a play about a French poet and swordsman with a large nose by Edmond Rostand. It premiered in Paris in 1897....


Author Biography

Name: Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand
Variant Name: Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand, Edmond Alexis Rostand, Edmond (-Eugene) Rostand, Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand
Birth Date: April 1, 1868
Death Date: December 2, 1918
Nationality: French
Gender: Male

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Biography of Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand
7925 words, approx. 26.4 pages
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 remembered through the years for the "panache" and po...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Cyrano de Bergerac Summary
3,617 words, approx. 12 pages
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand The playwright Edmond Rostand (1868- 1919) was born into a wealthy family whose members encouraged him to write. He studied law, then worked for a short time in a bank. Eventually Rostand devoted himself entirely to...
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Cyrano de Bergerac Information
2,333 words, approx. 8 pages
Cover of a 1990 French-language edition of Cyrano de...


News and Journals
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The Stranger
Cyrano de Bergerac
03/23/2006: 394 words, approx. 1 pages
If you love Cyrano de Bergerac and you go into this production of it with a generous attitude, it is possible to enjoy it vaguely, but you have to really love Cyrano and you have to be really generous. The main characters are: Roxane,...
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Opera News
TAMBERG: Cyrano de Bergerac
10/01/2004: 624 words, approx. 2 pages
TAMBERG: Cyrano de Bergerac Huhta, Airenne; Körts, Tiilikainen, Zahharov, Elp; Orchestra and Chorus of the Estonian National Opera, Mägi. Text and translation. CPO 999 832-2 (2) Cyrano, it seems, is in the air. This season, as the Met produces Franco Alfano's seldom-heard...
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AP News
Actress Mala Powers dies at 76
6/12/2007: 262 words, approx. 1 pages
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 leukemia at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, according to actress Kim...
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AP News
The show won't go on
11/10/2007: 480 words, approx. 2 pages
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 celebrate, only to discover that "Jersey Boys" and "Hairspray" — both playing on the same...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Alba della Fazia Amoia
12,562 words, approx. 42 pages
Amoia regards Cyrano de Bergerac and The Eaglet as Rostand's finest works.
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Critical Essay by Edward Freeman
11,090 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Freeman considers Cyrano de Bergerac "the perfect vehicle for one of the most comprehensive, polyvalent pieces of myth-making in nineteenth-century French literature."
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Critical Essay by Patricia Elliott Williams
4,252 words, approx. 14 pages
In the essay below, Williams interprets Cyrano de Bergerac in terms of the Aristotelian definition of tragedy.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Cyrano de Bergerac: Character Analysis of Cyrano
931 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay is about "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand. It gives insight to the character Cyrano. This was written from the point of view that he is a manipulative, deceptive coward.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Cyrano De Bergerac , An Analysis of Major Characters
870 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the book Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Analyzes the major characters in the story, including The Cyrano, Roxane, and De Guiche. Discusses which character is deserving of his fate in the story.
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Essay Grade: 84%
Inner Beauty
868 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay provides an analysis of the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand.
 


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