Edmond Rostand

Rostand, Edmond - ĕdmôNˈ rôstäNˈ, 1868–1918, French poet and dramatist. In 1890 appeared his first volume of verse, Les Musardises. His first plays were light, fanciful, and charmingly poetic, though of slight substance—Les Romanesques (1894, tr., The Romancers, 1899); La Princesse lointaine (1895, tr. The Princess Faraway, 1899), written for Read More...

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Edmond Rostand

1 .

Plays of Edmond Rostand, Vol. One (Includes "Cyrano of Bergerac," "The Princess Far Away," "The Woman of Samaria," and "The Romantics")
by Edmond Rostand, Henderson Daingerfield Norman. 360 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

List of Illustrations

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Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

Scene Vi Melissinde, Sorismonde; Later the Chevalier In Emerald Mail

The Woman of Samaria

The Woman of Samaria

Scene Ii The Priest, Azriel, Young Men, Old Men, Merchants, Etc.

Scene Ii The Priest, Azriel, Young Men, Old Men, Merchants, Etc.

Scene Ii The Priest, Azriel, Young Men, Old Men, Merchants, Etc.

Scene Ii The Priest, Azriel, Young Men, Old Men, Merchants, Etc.

Scene Ii The Priest, Azriel, Young Men, Old Men, Merchants, Etc.

Scene Ii The Priest, Azriel, Young Men, Old Men, Merchants, Etc.

Scene Ii The Same, Lacking the Disciples

Scene Iii The Same. Photine

Scene Iii The Same. Photine

Scene Iii The Same. Photine

Scene Iii The Same. Photine

Scene Iii The Same. Photine

Scene Iii The Same. Photine

Cyrano of Bergerac

Cyrano of Bergerac

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Act Ii The Poet's Bake Shop

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

Scene Ii The Same. Christian, LigniÈre; Later, Ragueneau And Le Bret

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Scene Iv The Same, the Count of Guiche

Scene V The Same, Roxane

Scene V The Same, Roxane

Scene V The Same, Roxane

Scene V The Same, Roxane

Scene V The Same, Roxane

Scene V The Same, Roxane

Act V Cyrano's Gazette

Scene I Mother Margaret, Sister Martha, Sister Claire, The Sisters

Scene Ii Roxane, the Duke of Gramont, Once Count of Guiche; Later, Le Bret, Ragueneau

Scene Iii Le Bret, Ragueneau

Scene V Roxane, Cyrano, and for a Moment, Sister Martha

Scene Iv Roxane, Alone; Later, Two Sisters for a Moment

Scene V Roxane, Cyrano, and for a Moment, Sister Martha
2 .

Plays of Edmond Rostand, Vol. Two
by Edmond Rostand, Ivan Glidden, Henderson Daingerfield Norman. 370 pgs.

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The Eaglet a Drama in Six Acts in Verse

The Eaglet

Act I Fledgling Wings

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Act II Fluttering Wings

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Act III Spreading Wings

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Act IV

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Act V

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Act VI Folded Wings

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Chanticleer a Play in Four Acts in Verse

Chanticleer

Prelude

Act I the Evening of the Pheasant Hen

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Act II the Morning of the Cock

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Act III the Guinea's Day

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Act IV the Night of the Nightingale

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Scene VII
3 .

Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand, Helen B. Dole. 232 pgs.

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Dedication.

Introduction.

Dramatis Person'.

Act First.: A Performance at the HÔtel De Bourgogne

Act Second.: The Poet's Cook Shop

Act Third.: Roxane's Kiss

Act Fourth.: The Gascon Cadets

Act Fifth.: Cyrano's Gazette
4 .

Essays on Modern Dramatists (Chap. VI "Edmond Rostand")
by William Lyon Phelps. 280 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

J. M. Barrie

George Bernard Shaw

John Galsworthy

Clyde Fitch

Maurice Maeterlinck
5 .

World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh ("French Fantansy and Flamboyance: Rostand and Maeterlinck" begins on p. 614)
by Allardyce Nicoll. 1000 pgs.

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CONTENTS

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PART I: FROM ATHENS TO ROME

Chapter I The First Dramatist: Æschylus

Chapter II: THE GLORY OF THE GREEK THEATRE: SOPHOCLES

Chapter III: THE DAWN OF REALISM: EURIPIDES

Chapter IV: ARISTOPHANES AND THE OLD COMEDY

Chapter V: FROM Menander TO THE MIMES

PART II: RELIGIOUS DRAMA AND PROFANE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

PART III: THE DRAMA OF THE RENAISSANCE

Chapter 1: COMEDY, TRAGEDY, AND MELODRAMA IN ITALY

Chapter II: THE POPULAR PLAY: THE COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE

Chapter III: FRENCH ROMANTICISM AND CLASSICISM

Chapter IV: THE SPANISH STAGE UNDER LOPE DE VEGA AND CALDERÓN

Chapter V: THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE OF THE JESUITS

PART IV: THE DRAMA OF THE RENAISSANCE: ENGLAND

Chapter I: THE POPULAR BEGINNINGS

Chapter II: SHAKESPEARE AND HIS PREDECESSORS

Chapter III: EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRAGEDY AND COMEDY

PART V: THE TRIUMPH OF CLASSICISM

Chapter 1: RACINE AND THE TRAGEDY OF SENTIMENT

Chapter 11: MOLIÉRE AND TRE COMEDY OF MANNERS

Chapter III: THE RESTORATION COMEDY OF MANNERS

PART VI THE AGE OF GENTILITY, PHILOSOPHY AND SENTIMENTALISM

Chapter 1: TRAGEDY AND OPERA

Chapter II: THE GROWTH OF BOURGEOIS COMEDY

Chapter III: THE WAVE OF SENTIMENTALISM

PART VII: THE ROMANTIC THEATRE

Chapter 1: FROM TRAGEDY TO MELODRAM

Chapter II: COMEDY AND EXTRAVAGANZA

PART VIII: FROM THE MIEDIEVAL TO THE MATERIALISTIC

Chapter I The Realm of Fancy

Chapter II: THE COMING OF REALISM

PART IX: REALISM'S TRIUMPH

Chapter 1: THE TRIUMPH OF REALISM: Ibsen

Chapter II: STRINDBERG AND THE PLAY OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS

Chapter III: THE INDEPENDENT THEATRE IN GERMANY

Chapter IV: THE PLAY OF IDEAS IN FRANCE

Chapter V: REALISM IN DIVERSE LANDS: ITALY, SPAIN, ENGLAND, RUSSIA

Chapter VI: NEO-ROMANTICISM IN THE THEATRE

PART X: THE DRAMA OF THE ORIENT

Chapter I: THE SANSKRIT DRAMA

Chapter II: THE DRAMA OF CHINA

Chapter III: THE JAPANESE DRAMA

PART X: ENTERING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 1: THE RELICS OF THE OLDER REALISM

Chapter II: THE EXTENSION OF THE REALISTIC

Chapter III: THE THEATRE SYMBOLIC AND THEATRICAL

Chapter IV: THE POETIC STAGE

Chapter V: PURPOSEFUL LAUGHTER: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

PART XII: DRAMA BETWEEN TWO WARS

Chapter 1: THE AMERICAN ADVENT

Chapter II: THE DRAMA OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Chapter III: THE EXPRESSIONISTIC MOVEMENT

Chapter IV: REALISM, SOCIAL AND OTHERWISE

Chapter V: THE COMIC SPIRIT AND SOCIAL UNREST

Chapter VI: THE VOGUE OF THE HISTORICAL PLAY

Chapter VII: THE REVIVAL OF POETIC DRAMA

Chapter VIII: EUGENE O'NEILL

PART XIII: THE THEATRE IN THE MIDST OF WAR, AND AFTER

PART XIV: CONCLUSION

INDEX
6 .

An Outline of Contemporary Drama (Chap. Fourteen "The New Romance")
by Thomas H. Dickinson. 304 pgs.

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Book One: The Roots of Contemporary Drama

Chapter One: A Survey and a Summary

Chapter Two: The Decline of the Romantic Play

Chapter Three: The Rise of the Popular Theater

Chapter Four: The Drama of Ideas

Chapter Five: Forerunners

Chapter Six: Henrik Ibsen

Book Two: The Dramatic Revival

Chapter Seven: The Freeing of the Theaters

Chapter Eight: Beginnings of the Naturalistic Movement

Chapter Nine: The Dramatic Revival of the Nineties

Chapter Ten: Gerhart Hauptmann

Chapter Eleven: Maurice Maeterlinck

Chapter Twelve: August Strindberg

Chapter Thirteen: George Bernard Shaw

Chapter Fourteen: The New Romance

Book Three Twentieth-Century Drama

Chapter Fifteen: The Turn of the Century

Chapter Sixteen: The New Art of the Theater

Chapter Seventeen: Comedy and Fantasy

Chapter Eighteen: The Futuristic Drama

Chapter Nineteen: A Summary of Contemporary Drama By Countries

Index
7 .

Aspects of Modern Drama (Chap. III "Varieties of Romance")
by Frank Wadleigh Chandler. 504 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Drama of Ideas: Ibsen

Chapter II: The Themes of Naturalism

Chapter III: Varieties of Romance

Chapter IV: The Drama of Symbolism

Chapter V: 'The Eternal Triangle'

Chapter VI: Wayward Woman

Chapter VII: The Priestly Hero

Chapter VIII: Scenes from Married Life

Chapter IX: The Problem of Divorce

Chapter X: Family Studies

Chapter XI: Irish Plays of Mysticism and Folk History

Chapter XII: Irish Plays of the Peasantry

Chapter XIII: The Tyranny of Love

Chapter XIV: Ideals of Honor

Chapter XV: Plays of Social Criticism

Chapter XVI: The Poetic Drama

Chapter XVII: The Drama of Satire: Shaw

Bibliographical Appendix

Index
8 .

Guide to Great Plays ("Cyrano de Bergerac" begins on p. 557)
by Joseph T. Shipley. 867 pgs.

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Prefatory Notes

Cato of Utica

Index
9 .

Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors ("Edmond Rostand 1868-1918" begins on p. 588)
by Stanley J. Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Wilbur C. Hadden. 730 pgs.

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Key to Pronunciations

Authors Today and Yesterday

Index
10 .

The Theatre of Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963 (Includes Rostand's play "The Last Night of Don Juan" and criticism begins on p. 569)
by Oscar Mandel. 731 pgs.

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The Legend of Don Juan

Part I: The Classical Don Juan

Don Juan in Spain (1616?-1630)

The Playboy of Seville or Supper with a Statue (1616?)

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Don Juan in Italy, France, and England (1625-1676)

Don Juan in Italy, France, and England (1625-1676)

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Act V

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The Libertine: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1676)

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Don Juan in Italy, Germany, and Austria (1736-1787)

The Puppet Theatre and Don Juan Und Don Pietro Oder Das Steinerne-Todten-Gastmahl

Don Juan and Don Pietro or the Dead Stone's Banquet (before 1787)

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The Punished Libertine or Don Giovanni

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Part II: The Romantic Don Juan

Nineteenth-Century Views (1814-1822)

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Don Juan on the Musical Stage (1817-1820)

Don Juan on the Musical Stage (1817-1820)

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Nineteenth-Centug Views (1832-1843)

Don Juan Tenorio (1844)

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Part III: The Molecular Don Juan

Twentieth-Century Views (1903-1911)

The Last Night of Don Juan (1921)

Don Juan Act II (1956)

Don Juan or the Love of Geometry

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Bibliography

Acknowledgments
11 .

The Contemporary French Theatre: The Flight from Naturalism (Chap. 2 "Edmond Rostand')
by Joseph Chiari. 242 pgs.

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Contents

Introductory

Part I: The Poets

Chapter 1: The Background to the Flight from Naturalism

Chapter 2: Edmond Rostand

Chapter 3: Henri Gh2éon and Jules Supervielle

Chapter 4: Paul Claudel

Part II: The Prose Writers

Chapter 5: Jacques Copeau

Chapter 6 Language and Myth in Modern French Poetic Drama: Jean Cocteau

Chapter 7: Jean Giraudoux

Chapter 8: Jean-Paul Sartre

Chapter 9: Jean Anouilh

Chapter 10: Henry De Montherlant

Conclusion

Index

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