Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Edmond rostand libri gratuiti in italiano e in altre lingue. Edmond rostand verses dramajanak hose, a nemes lelku, gyonged. Though its moliere thats more often used as a french answer to shakespeare, edmond rostands cyrano has to be about the only riposte to hamlet available in human literature. A quarrelsome, hottempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman, roxanne.
Edmond eugene alexis rostand was a french poet and dramatist. A quarrelsome, hottempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slowwitted suitor. A witty, eloquent drama widely considered the most popular modern french play, it is presented here in a rich blank verse translation by poet louis untermeyer. Rostand wrote only a few additional plays, none of which were. Rostands romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. E allanima di cirano che avrei voluto dedicare questo poema, ma poiche essa e passata in voi, coquelin, e a voi che lo dedico. Philosopher, poet, swordsman, soldier and wit, there is an underlying fatalism to cyrano. Voor een snelle orientatie zijn hieronder miniatuurweergaven opgenomen. We know more about his wife, catherine millet, whose father, guillaume ii. The play in its original french is written entirely in rhyming couplets. Edmond rostand libri gratuiti in italiano e in altre.
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