by Edmond Rostand · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080705266
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«Cyrano de Bergerac» is the verse drama by Edmond Rostand, published by Flammarion in a French paperback edition, with a presentation by Willy de Spens.
The play is set in seventeenth-century Paris and tells the story of Cyrano, a poet and swordsman of great wit who hides his sensitivity behind an appearance marked by his enormous nose. In love with his cousin Roxane, he lends his words and talent to Christian, a handsome young man, so that she may be loved, while war and honour test his loyalty and his fate.
It belongs to Flammarion's GF collection, number 526, and includes an introduction, notes, bibliography and chronology by Willy de Spens.
Recommended for those seeking to read in French a classic of French romantic theatre with critical apparatus and complete text.
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 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 (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy The Fantasticks.
