Cyrano falls in love with a beautiful woman, but she falls for another man, a more handsome man who is not very bright. The play is about a man, being Cyrano who had a distinctive big nose and was not very attractive, but what he did not have in looks he had in intelligence and humility. Constant Coquelin made for the perfect character to play the role.

Cyrano de Bergerac was an inspiration based on his real-life childhood hero from the 17th century. Until this day Cyrano de Bergerac is still displayed in theaters all around the world, as soon as it was presented in 1897 it became an international sensation translated in different languages. This idea inspired him to write one of the greatest and most famous playwrights in his life, Cyrano de Bergerac.Ĭyrano de Bergerac, his biggest hit of all time Sarah Bernhardt was not the only one supportive about Rostand’s playwright La Princesse Lointaine, it also impressed her friend and previous acting partner Constant Coquelin who asked Edmond to let him perform in one of his plays. For some time, he did not write any poetry or playwrights.

Like many poets, after experiencing harsh disapproval from something he’s worked so hard on, he started to enter a stage of depression. It was disappointing to see that the people of France during that century did not appreciate deep drama and the concept of fighting for love. A concept for a play far ahead of its time should have been a hit, especially considering Sarah Bernhardt a very recognized actress at the time played the main character in the role, but this did not matter. He was highly criticized for this work, people were expecting to see something different, but similar to his previous play “Les Romanesques. Edmond was looking to improve the vision of theater by writing a more serious playwright, La Princesse Lointaine. He died in 1918, at the age of 50.His next play after Les Romanesques did not do well on stage. Rostand was married to the poet and playwright Rosemonde-Étienette Gérard who published Les Pipeaux, a volume of verse commended by the Academy. It remains one of the most popular plays in France, and continues to be adapted into modern versions across the world. The play’s sentimental hero – plagued by a love triangle –went on to symbolise the spirit of the French.

Rostand is best known, though, for Cyrano de Bergerac, a play about a chivalrous swordsman with an oversized nose. The play was so popular that it was later adapted into The Fantasticks, which became the world’s longest-running musical. It was a parody of Romeo and Juliet, in which two families fake a feud to convince their children to fall in love. His first hit came a few years later, Les Romanesques, which was first performed in 1894.

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