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This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero--Cyrano De Bergerac--and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Signet/New American Library, 1972
ISBN 10: 0451508912
ISBN 13: 9780451508911
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. New York. 1972. May 1972. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451508912. Translated from the French by Lowell Bair. Afterword by Henry Hewes. 220 pages. paperback. CQ891. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature Drama France Translated. DESCRIPTION - CYRANO DE BERGERAC occupies a unique place in the modern theater. Deliberately disavowing realism and contemporary relevance, Edmond Rostand's masterpiece represents a turning back in both time and spirit to an earlier age of high adventure and soaring idealism. Its magnificent hero, Cyrano, noble of soul and grotesque in appearance, gallant Gaston soldier, brilliant wit and timid lover, alternately comic, heroic, and tragic, 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 new translation, is the ultimate triumph of the great French romantic tradition-a work which, in the words of the French critic Lemaitre, 'prolongs, unites and blends., three centuries of comic fantasy and moral grace.' A new translation by Lowell Bair. With an afterword by Henry Hewes. inventory #33755. Seller Inventory # z33755