Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

The phenomenal success of "Cyrano de Bergerac" is undoubtedly one of the most important literary events of the last quarter of a century. It at once placed Edmond Rostand, a you...

_Beautiful shade trees. To the left, the house. Wide porch on which several doors open. In the centre of the stage, an enormous overspreading tree standing alone in a sort of op...

_The post occupied by the Company of Carbon of Haughty-Hall at the siege of Arras. In the rear, an embankment running across the stage. Beyond, a plain, extending as far as the...

Yours find a resting-place immediately. Oh! very naturally, since I receive them into my heart. Remember that my heart is large, while your ear is very small. Moreover, your wor...

[8] Note.--The words "you kick," in the place of "tu récalcitres," were suggested by a friend, as a better translation. But the good critic failed to realise that Cyrano does no...

And that we challenge any beardless hero who, through influence, and not being really a Gascon, manages to get assigned to our Gascon Company? That is what you were told.

Oh! it is easy enough to find words for a fight! Yes, perhaps I have a sort of easy, military wit; but, facing women, I am struck dumb. Oh! their eyes seem favourable enough as...

Such being the case, it may not seem improper for me to present to you a few of the gentlemen who will have the honour of dying before your eyes.

Weep? Never! Oh! a sorry sight, indeed, If down this nose a tear should take its course! I will not have, so long as I command, The saintliness of tears polluted by This homelin...

CYRANO DE BERGERAC MR. COQUELIN. CHRISTIAN DE NEUVILLETTE MR. VOLNY. COUNT DE GUICHE MR. DESJARDINS. RAGUENEAU MR. JEAN COQUELIN. LE BRET MR. CASTILLAN. CAPTAIN CARBON OF HAUGHT...

(_A ray of light from the moon is on him. He falls back into his chair. The weeping of Roxane wakes him from his dreamy state. He looks at her and strokes her veil._)