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Cyrano De Bergerac

First published: 1897
Pages: 227

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Read by Elizabeth Klett, Algy Pug, Elizabeth Barr and others · 4 h 5 min · 6 parts

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Dramatis Personae
4:24
Act I
57:10
Act II
51:37
Act III
50:50
Act IV
51:18
Act V
30:16

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Rostand's 1897 verse play created a hero the French stage has never let go: a Gascon swordsman, poet, and duelist whose wit outruns every opponent, and whose enormous nose convinces him that Roxane could never love him. When she confides that she has fallen for the handsome young cadet Christian, Cyrano lends the boy his words, writing the letters that win her and hiding beneath her balcony to feed him his lines. The verse is fireworks, the plot is a slow ache, and the last scene has been undoing audiences for well over a century. Rostand borrowed the name from a real seventeenth century writer and invented almost everything else. Free PDF and EPUB edition here.

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Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) was a French poet and dramatist from Marseille. Cyrano de Bergerac made him famous overnight at twenty-nine and carried him into the Académie française by thirty-three. He also wrote L'Aiglon for Sarah Bernhardt and the barnyard allegory Chantecler.

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