Edmond Rostand (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
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Although his greatest success was as a dramatist, Edmond Rostand was first of all a poet. All of his plays are written in verse, and despite his real flair for dramatic situations, it is the wit and lyricism of his verse that raise his best plays above the level of ordinary melodrama. His first published work was a volume of poetry, Les Musardises (1890). The title is untranslatable. Its basic meaning is “daydreams,” but in a preface, Rostand explained that he also meant to evoke a kind of melancholy—muzer, in the Walloon dialect,...
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