Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
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Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. The play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of Cyrano de Bergerac's life.
Cyrano de Bergerac, the man for whom the play is named and upon whose life it is based
The second-to-last scene. First performance of the play. Published in "l'illustration", 8 January 1898
Benoît-Constant Coquelin created the role of Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Walter Hampden on the cover of Time in 1929, while he was the producer, director, star and theatre manager of a Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy The Fantasticks.
Rostand in the uniform of the Académie française, 1905
Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898
Rostand by Guth in 1901