Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. It is slightly based on the real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictional story about his life.
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| 200px Cyrano de Bergerac, the man for whom the play is named and upon whose life it is based | |
| Written by | Edmond Rostand |
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| Date of premiere | 1897 |
| Original language | French |
| Genre | Romance |
| Setting | France, 1640 |
The play has been translated and performed many times, and it is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.[1]
Cyrano De Bergerac (play) Media
- Cyra.jpg
The second-to-last scene. First performance of the play. Published in "l'illustration", 8 January 1898
- Coquelin ainé.jpg
Benoît-Constant Coquelin created the role of Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
- Walter-Hampden-TIME-1929.jpg
Walter Hampden on the cover of Time in 1929, while he was the producer, director, star and theatre manager of a Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac
- "Cyrano de Bergerac" at Synetic Theater.jpg
2023 adaptation at Synetic Theater.
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1900).webm
Cyrano de Bergerac (1900), produced for the Phono-Cinéma, an early sound film method, with frames colored by a stencil process; here the original Benoît-Constant Coquelin performs the duel in Act 1.
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).webm
The English 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac.
References
- ↑ Edmond Rostand (1998-09-01). Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts. ISBN 9780192836434. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
