page_title: Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
hierarchical_section_title: Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait de Cyrano dessiné et gravé par un artiste non identifié d'après un tableau de Zacharie Heince sur lequel figuraient Henry Le Bret et Jean Royer de Prade. English: Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 – 1655) French dramatist and soldier, author of The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and The Comical History of the States and the Empires of the Sun. Portrait drawn and engraved by an artist who signed with a monogram, after a painting by Zacharie Heince.
context_page_description: Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life.
  The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.
  The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language. Cyrano is in fact famed for his panache, and he himself makes reference to "my panache" in the play. The two most famous English translations are those by Brian Hooker and Anthony Burgess.
context_section_description: Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life.
  The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.
  The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language. Cyrano (the character) is in fact famed for his panache, and he himself makes reference to "my panache" in the play. The two most famous English translations are those by Brian Hooker and Anthony Burgess.
caption: Cyrano de Bergerac, the man for whom the play is named and upon whose life it is based
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