Cyrano de Bergerac (Signet Classics)

Cyrano de Bergerac (Signet Classics)

Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival.

Cyrano de Bergerac occupies a unique place in the modern theater. Deliberately disavowing realism and contemporary relevance, Edmond Rostandâ€™s masterpiece represents a turning back in both time and spirit to an earlier age of high adventure and soaring idealism. Its magnificent hero, Cyranoâ€”noble of soul and grotesque in appearance, gallant Gascon soldier, brilliant wit, and timid lover, alternately comic, heroic, tragicâ€”represents one of the most challenging of all acting roles in its complexity and mercurial changes of mood. From its original production to the present day, Cyrano de Bergerac has enjoyed a charmed existence on the stage, its unflagging pace of action and eloquence of language enchanting critics and public alike. Here, in a superlative translation, is the ultimate triumph of the great French romantic traditionâ€”a work which, in the words of the French critic LemaÃ®tre, â€œprolongs, unites and blendsâ€¦three centuries of comic fantasy and moral grace.â€
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Translated by Lowell Bair
With an Introduction by Eteel Lawson
and an Afterword by Cynthia B. Kerr
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Country USA
Brand Signet
Manufacturer Signet
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 82828
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-03-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780451531988

Country	USA
Brand	Signet
Manufacturer	Signet
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	82828
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2012-03-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780451531988

Cyrano de Bergerac (Signet Classics)

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