Jan 3, 2010
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Rostand, Edmond
Rostand, Edmond
(
1868
–
1918
),
French
playwright, author of Les Romanesques (
1894
), La Princesse lointaine (
1895
), La Samaritaine (
1897
), L'Aiglon (
1900
, based on the life of Napoleon's son), and Chantecler (
1910
). The poetic drama Cyrano de Bergerac (
1897
), his most popular and successful work, revives in romantic guise the 17th-cent. soldier and duellist
Cyrano
. It has been translated into Glaswegian demotic by
E.
Morgan
(
1992
), and was successfully filmed (
1990
) with
Gérard
Depardieu
in the title role, with English subtitles rendered into rhyming verse by
A.
Burgess
.
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