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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: / ˈrɒstɒ̃ /, [1] US: / rɔːˈstɒ̃, ˈrɒstænd /, [2][3] French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Edmond Rostand (born April 1, 1868, Marseille, France—died Dec. 2, 1918, Paris) was a French dramatist of the period just before World War I whose plays provide a final, very belated example of Romantic drama in France.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (/ ˌ s ɪr ə n oʊ d ə ˈ b ɜːr ʒ ə r æ k,-ˈ b ɛər-/ SIRR-ə-noh də BUR-zhə-rak, – BAIR-, French: [siʁano d(ə) bɛʁʒəʁak]) is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. The play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life.
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Sep 21, 2024 · Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose.
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French playwright. Examine the life, times, and work of Edmond Rostand through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
In 1897, the French poet Edmond Rostand published a play, Cyrano de Bergerac, telling of the life of a fictionalized Cyrano with an abnormally large nose. This play, which became Rostand's most successful work, revolves around Cyrano's love for the beautiful Roxane, whom he is obliged to woo on behalf of a more conventionally handsome but less ...
Jul 1, 2005 · As a writer of comic-heroic verse drama inspired by the literary and social ideals of seventeenth-century France and designed to inspire popular audiences with a sense of the heroic, Rostand was, in almost every sense, out of kilter with the fin de siècle.
