Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand · 1897 CE · Play · French · Victorian

A Gascon guardsman with a genius for verse, swordplay and insult loves his cousin Roxane and will not say so, certain that his nose makes him impossible. When she confides that she loves a handsome new cadet who cannot put two words together, Cyrano offers the man his words. Eloquence as both the gift and the disguise.

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• alludes to ↑ Don Quixote
  Cervantes · 1605 CE · Novel
• alludes to ↑ Romeo and Juliet
  William Shakespeare · c. 1597 CE · Play

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