Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: /ˈrÉ'stÉ'̃/,[1] US:
/rÉ"Ë ËˆstÉ'̃,ˈrÉ'stænd/,[2][3] French: [É›dmÉ"̃ Ê É"stÉ'̃]; 1
April 1868 â€" 2 December 1918) 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 was born in Marseille,
France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was
an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of
Catullus,[4] and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de
France. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the
Collège Stanislas in Paris, France.When Rostand was twenty years old,
his first play, a one-act comedy, Le Gant rouge, was performed at the
Cluny Theatre, 24 August 1888, but it was almost unnoticed.[4]In 1890,
Rostand published a volume of poems called Les Musardises.[5] The same
year he offered a one-act Pierrot play in verse to the director of the
Théâtre Français. This gave him the opportunity to write for the
state theatre a three-act play, also in verse, as are all Rostand's
plays. He considered himself a poet, whether writing plays or poetry.
/rÉ"Ë ËˆstÉ'̃,ˈrÉ'stænd/,[2][3] French: [É›dmÉ"̃ Ê É"stÉ'̃]; 1
April 1868 â€" 2 December 1918) 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 was born in Marseille,
France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was
an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of
Catullus,[4] and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de
France. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the
Collège Stanislas in Paris, France.When Rostand was twenty years old,
his first play, a one-act comedy, Le Gant rouge, was performed at the
Cluny Theatre, 24 August 1888, but it was almost unnoticed.[4]In 1890,
Rostand published a volume of poems called Les Musardises.[5] The same
year he offered a one-act Pierrot play in verse to the director of the
Théâtre Français. This gave him the opportunity to write for the
state theatre a three-act play, also in verse, as are all Rostand's
plays. He considered himself a poet, whether writing plays or poetry.
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