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A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama.
A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano
secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the
beautiful but inarticulate Christian. Cyrano's generous offer to
act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious
love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of
physical attraction and the seductive power of words. Martin
Crimp's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac premiered
at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 2019.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (Paperback)
Edmond Rostand; Translated by Lowell Bair; Introduction by Eteel Lawson; Afterword by Cynthia B Kerr
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R170
R143
Discovery Miles 1 430
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, this story of
the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo
his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival is
beloved around the world. Revised reissue.
The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with
the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English
translation by Anthony Burgess. This translation of Edmond
Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac was first performed by the Royal
Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, in July 1983,
with Derek Jacobi as Cyrano. Burgess's translation was subsequently
used as the basis of the sub-titles for the 1990 film version of
Cyrano de Bergerac starring Gerard Depardieu.
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Cyrano (Paperback)
Edmond Rostand; Translated by Peter Oswald
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R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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A new version of the classic French romantic comedy from Peter
Oswald. Cursed with the looks of a clown, he weaves his secret
longing into love letters of exquisite beauty that he will never
dare to send. All he needs is a perfect nose to match his perfect
prose. The handsome Christian has also fallen for Roxane - but
while he looks like a god, he sounds like a fool. Sacrificing
physical love for fantasy, Cyrano hands his words of love to
Christian to speak for them both. Will Roxane fall for the
'perfect' man? Can Cyrano exist with only half her heart? Is true
love more than skin deep?
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The Romancers (Paperback)
Edmond Rostand; Translated by Barrett H. Clark
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R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
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Characters: 5 male, 1 female
Exterior Set
The story of two youngsters whose parents wish them to marry.
The young people are determined to take matters in their own hands
and refuse to fall in with their parents' plans. The fathers then
pretend to a mortal enmity, which brings the young people together,
but only after the boy and girl have run away from home and
returned disillusioned.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
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R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
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R1,319
Discovery Miles 13 190
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The Communicado Theatre's production of this verse rendering won
the Edinburgh Fringe First award at the 1992 Festival, and has gone
on to tour Scotland and England in 1992-3. Edwin Morgan provides an
introduction, which sets the play in its time and discusses the
style of his translation; it aims to provide insight and
stimulation to a new generation of readers and playgoers.
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