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 in...
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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 tha...
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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 beca...
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Edmond (Eugene Alexis) Rostand
