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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
7,925 words, approx. 26 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...


Quotations
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Edmond Rostand Quotes
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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand ( 1 April 1868 - 2 December 1918 ) was a French poet and dramatist most famous for his fictional play Cyrano de Bergerac , based upon the life of Cyrano de Bergerac . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) 1.2...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Edmond Rostand Information
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Medieval 16th century · 17th century 18th century · 19th century 20th century ·...


News and Journals
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AP News
Today in History - Dec. 28
12/28/2006: 510 words, approx. 2 pages
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 United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Va.On...
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The New York Observer
Ian McKellen’s Member and Other Broadway Monuments of 2007
1/1/2008: 768 words, approx. 3 pages
A year without a new play by Sir David Hare can’t be all bad—and so it happily proved. Top of my list is the stunning, imaginative achievement of Gregory Burke’s Black Watch—the first docudrama about war I’ve seen to successfully turn reportage into art, and...
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The New York Observer
Danes, Garner and Pullman Bring Hollywood to Broadway
9/18/2007: 817 words, approx. 3 pages
It’s a good time to be a theater queen—plenty of camp this fall! The Ritz, a Roundabout revival of Terrence McNally’s 1975 comedic romp set in a gay bathhouse, promises to wring every last drop of squeaky sass from actress Rosie Perez, who performs alongside...
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AP Features
Plays dominate Broadway's fall season
9/7/2007: 1,798 words, approx. 6 pages
A monster and a mermaid would seem to have the new musical market cornered on Broadway this fall, but it is plays rather than musicals that _ surprisingly _ are dominating the first half of the season."The lineup of production for the fall season should...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Joseph Chiari
5,424 words, approx. 18 pages
In the essay below, Chiari examines the elements of Romanticism in Rostand's plays.
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Critical Essay by Martin Lamm
3,588 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Lamm appraises Rostand's major plays.
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Critical Essay by Clarence D. Brenner
3,276 words, approx. 11 pages
In this essay, Brenner examines Cyrano's similarities to traditional French Romantic heroes.
 


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