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, Lamm appraises Rostand's major plays.
While Maeterlinck and Claudel had difficulty in gaining stage success with their plays another writer of the same school, but of...
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In the essay below, Chiari examines the elements of Romanticism in Rostand's plays.
Edmond Rostand is not a major writer, yet somehow he is an important one. His importance lies in the fact ...
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In the following essay, Eliot declares that "in the particular case of Cyrano on Noses, the character, the situation, the occasion were perfectly suited and combined. The tirade generated by th...
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In this essay, Brenner examines Cyrano's similarities to traditional French Romantic heroes.
Edmond Rostand is said to have become interested in Cyrano de Bergerac in the days of his youth b...
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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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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...
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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 e...
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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 sea...
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It's quite a stretch _ from TV's Norm to Broadway's Edna. George Wendt, best known to TV viewers as Norm Peterson on "Cheers," joins the New York company of "Hairspray" on Oct. 23, playing Edna Tur...
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Rosie O'Donnell will serve as national ambassador for the 2008 "Kids' Night on Broadway," which will take place in February.The annual event lets young people, ages 6 to 18, see a Broadway show for...
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Rosie O'Donnell will serve as national ambassador for the 2008 "Kids' Night on Broadway," which will take place in February.The annual event lets young people, ages 6 to 18, see a Broadway show for...
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Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand
Critical Essay by Martin Lamm
Today in History - Dec. 28
