Cyrano de Bergerac E-Book

Edmond Rostand

• Herausgeber: Edmond Rostand
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the game is a fictionalization of her life that follows the broad outline of it. The entire game is written in verse, rhyming twelve syllables per line, very close to the classic form of Alexandria, but the verses sometimes lacks a caesura. Hercule Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (noble serving as a soldier) in the French army, is a feisty, strong-willed man of many talents. Besides being a great duelist, it is a talented, joyful poet and is also proven to be a musician. However, he has a very large nose, which is the reason for its insecurity. This doubt prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful Roxane and intellectual heir, as he believes that his ugliness denies him the “dream of being loved by even an ugly woman”.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ACT 1

SCENE 1.1.

SCENE 1.2.

SCENE 1.3.

SCENE 1.4.

SCENE 1.5.

SCENE 1.6.

SCENE 1.7.

ACT 2.

SCENE 2.1.

SCENE 2.2.

SCENE 2.3.

SCENE 2.4.

SCENE 2.5.

SCENE 2.6.

SCENE 2.7.

SCENE 2.8.

SCENE 2.9.

SCENE 2.10.

SCENE 2.11.

ACT 3.

SCENE 3.1.

SCENE 3.2.

SCENE 3.3.

SCENE 3.4.

SCENE 3.5.

SCENE 3.6.

SCENE 3.7.

SCENE 3.8.

SCENE 3.9.

SCENE 3.10.

SCENE 3.11.

SCENE 3.12.

ACT 4.

SCENE 4.1.

SCENE 4.2.

SCENE 4.3.

SCENE 4.4.

SCENE 4.5.

SCENE 4.6.

SCENE 4.7.

SCENE 4.8.

SCENE 4.9.

SCENE 4.10.

ACT 5.

SCENE 5.1.

SCENE 5.2.

SCENE 5.3.

SCENE 5.4.

SCENE 5.5.

SCENE 5.6.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

BY

EDMOND ROSTAND

First digital edition 2018 by Maria Ruggieri

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

CYRANO DE BERGERAC CHRISTIAN DE NEUVILLETTE COUNT DE GUICHE RAGUENEAU LE BRET CARBON DE CASTEL-JALOUX THE CADETS LIGNIERE DE VALVERT A MARQUIS SECOND MARQUIS THIRD MARQUIS MONTFLEURY BELLEROSE JODELET CUIGY BRISSAILLE THE DOORKEEPER A LACKEY A SECOND LACKEY A BORE A MUSKETEER ANOTHER A SPANISH OFFICER A PORTER A BURGHER HIS SON A PICKPOCKET A SPECTATOR A GUARDSMAN BERTRAND THE FIFER A MONK TWO MUSICIANS THE POETS THE PASTRY COOKS ROXANE SISTER MARTHA LISE THE BUFFET-GIRL MOTHER MARGUERITE THE DUENNA SISTER CLAIRE AN ACTRESS THE PAGES THE SHOP-GIRL

The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators (male and female), precieuses, nuns, etc.

ACT 1

A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne.

The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance.

The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible.

On both sides of the stage are benches. The curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. Above a harlequin’s mantle are the royal arms. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall; on either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Footlights.

Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theater; at the back of the pit, i.e., on the right foreground, some benches forming steps, and underneath, a staircase which leads to the upper seats. An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc.