Edmond Rostand

His uniform is picturesque; a hat with triple plumeDoublet, cape, and sword - worn like a peacock’s tail. From the eyebrows up, he’s all feathersFrom the neck down, it’s buckle and swash -But squeezed between is a nose – a nose... A modest poet such as I must fail entirelyTo describe this gross, immodest, monstrous nose. Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant poet and swordsman, is deeply in love with his brilliant and beautiful cousin Roxane. Each day of his life is lived only for her – every poem he writes, every duel he fights. But, despite his dash and his daring, Cyrano is afraid of revealing his true feelings, certain she will never love him in return. For who could love a man with such an enormous nose? Award-winning playwright Deborah McAndrew has adapted Edmond Rostand's original 1897 play of unrequited love set in the golden age of musketeers. This version of Cyrano de Bergerac, for 13 actors, received its world premiere at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle, on 3 February 2017 as part of a national tour, produced by Northern Broadsides and the New Vic Theatre.

Sur une basse-cour r gne un coq, Chantecler, tellement convaincu de son importance qu'il s'imagine, par son chant, faire se lever le soleil. Mais l'arriv e d'une poule faisane bouleverse sa vie, lui r v lant l'amour, de telle sorte qu'il en oublie de chanter. L'astre du jour tant cependant apparu, Chantecler devient la ris e de tous les animaux domestiques et sauvages, et surtout des hiboux, cr atures de la nuit qui le d testent, et le contraignent accepter un combat public avec un autre coq. Le combat se d roule dans le salon litt raire de la Pintade. Vainqueur apr s avoir fr l la mort, Chantecler d fend alors la basse-cour contre les menaces d'un pervier et recouvre ainsi une part de son prestige. Injustement d laiss e, mais comprenant que chez le coq la vanit est plus forte que l'amour, la faisane se sacrifie n anmoins pour lui et se porte sa place au-devant d'un chasseur. Un coup part, mais c'est le rossignol la voix d'or qui est bless mort. Le chant rauque du coq continuera seul c l brer l'aube.

Edmond Eug ne Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 - 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is known best for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, was adapted to the musical comedy, The Fantasticks.

L'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle). The title role was created by Sarah Bernhardt in the play's premiere on 15 March 1900 at the Th tre Sarah Bernhardt. In October of the same year, the play (in an English translation by Louis N. Parker) premiered at New York's Knickerbocker Theatre, with Maude Adams in the title role.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Acad mie fran aise and the dames pr cieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

Cyrano de Bergerac est l'une des pi ces les plus populaires du th tre fran ais, et la plus c l bre de son auteur, Edmond Rostand. Librement inspir e de la vie et de l'oeuvre de l' crivain libertin Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), elle est repr sent e pour la premi re fois le 28 d cembre 1897, au Th tre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris.

Une repr sentation l'h tel de Bourgogne (en 1640). La salle du th tre se remplit: on va y donner une pastorale, la Clorise, dans le genre pr cieux. Le jeune et beau Christian de Neuvillette y vient contempler la femme qu'il aime: Roxane, une pr cieuse pouvantablement ravissante qui le comte de Guiche fait la cour. La pi ce commence, mais est vite interrompue par le turbulent Cyrano de Bergerac, qui interdit l'acteur Montfleury de jouer, car il est trop gros

Chantecler is a verse play in four acts written by Edmond Rostand. The play is notable in that all the characters are farmyard animals including the main protagonist, a chanticleer, or rooster. The play centers on the theme of idealism and spiritual sincerity, as contrasted with cynicism and artificiality. Much of the play satirizes modernist artistic doctrines from Rostand's romanticist perspective.

In his play "The Romancers" Edmond Rostand satirizes the sentimentalism and escapism of Romantic literature of his times. Percinet is the only son of Bergamin and Sylvette is the only daughter of Pasquinot. Their fathers who are widowers and neighbours make a plan to marry their children with each other.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Acad mie fran aise and the dames pr cieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.