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Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (Oxford World's Classics)
Cyrano de Bergerac A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts - Oxford World's Classics Author:Edmond Rostand Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. The text is accompanied by Notes and a full Introduction which sets the play in its literary and his... more »torical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into "chiming couplets" represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another.« less