Edmond Rostand

Susan Lloyd (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Edward Forman, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 1 Apr 1868
Died 2 Dec 1918
Activity 1888-1918

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Rostand's Works

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Edmond Eugène Joseph Alexis Rostand was born in Marseilles on 1 April 1868. Besides his famous heroic verse drama,

Cyrano de Bergerac

(1897), he wrote other verse plays successful in their time, such as

L’Aiglon

(

The Eaglet

1900) and

Chantecler

(1910). He also published four volumes of verse. The success of

Cyrano de Bergerac

brought Rostand worldwide fame. He died in 1918 from the Spanish flu.

Edmond Rostand was born into a cultured and affluent Marseilles family in the final years of the Third Empire. His father Eugène was a financier and a poet, who translated Catullus into French, and with his brother Alexis, financier and musician, wrote several successful oratorios. Rostand’s mother was an accomplished storyteller and held a salon popular with literary, musical and political

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Citation: Lloyd, Susan. "Edmond Rostand". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 July 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3856, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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