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Literature/Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand, 1897Translated by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard (1898)

Edmond Rostand’s verse play of Cyrano de Bergerac, a poet and swordsman of seventeenth-century Paris with an enormous nose, who loves his cousin Roxane but helps the handsome Christian to court her.

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Contents

Act I: A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne

  1. Scene I
  2. Scene II
  3. Scene III
  4. Scene IV
  5. Scene V
  6. Scene VI
  7. Scene VII

Act II: The Poet’s Eating-House

  1. Scene I
  2. Scene II
  3. Scene III
  4. Scene IV
  5. Scene V
  6. Scene VI
  7. Scene VII
  8. Scene VIII
  9. Scene IX
  10. Scene X
  11. Scene XI

Act III: Roxane’s Kiss

  1. Scene I
  2. Scene II
  3. Scene III
  4. Scene IV
  5. Scene V
  6. Scene VI
  7. Scene VII
  8. Scene VIII
  9. Scene IX
  10. Scene X
  11. Scene XI
  12. Scene XII

Act IV: The Cadets of Gascony

  1. Scene I
  2. Scene II
  3. Scene III
  4. Scene IV
  5. Scene V
  6. Scene VI
  7. Scene VII
  8. Scene VIII
  9. Scene IX
  10. Scene X

Act V: Cyrano’s Gazette

  1. Scene I
  2. Scene II
  3. Scene III
  4. Scene IV
  5. Scene V
  6. Scene VI