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Cyrano's short life is poorly documented. Certain significant chapters of his life are known only from the Preface to the Histoire Comique par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac, Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) published in 1657, nearly two years after his death. [2]
Inspired by Lucian's proto-science fiction work True History or True Story, The Other World went on to influence many other works seen as early science fiction, including Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, which is also an example of fantastic voyages exploring both contemporary social commentary, and some ideas of the unknown and ...
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Since its Paris premiere in 1897, Edmond Rostand's “Cyrano de Bergerac” has maintained a firm grip on the public’s imagination. The tale has in fact morphed into a modern myth, forever ...
Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898. The production of his heroic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac (28 December 1897, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title role, was a triumph. [8] The first production lasted for more than 300 consecutive nights. [4]
Some critics consider The Man in the Moone, along with Kepler's Somnium, to be one of the first works of science fiction. [3] The book was well known in the 17th century, and even inspired parodies by Cyrano de Bergerac and Aphra Behn, but has been neglected in critical history. Recent studies have focused on Godwin's theories of language, the ...
Burgess's published translations include two versions of Cyrano de Bergerac, [91] Oedipus the King [92] and Carmen. Burgess's interest in language was reflected in the invented, Anglo-Russian teen slang of A Clockwork Orange ( Nadsat ), and in the movie Quest for Fire (1981), for which he invented a prehistoric language ( Ulam ) for the characters.
Cyrano is an opera in four acts composed by Walter Damrosch to an English language libretto by William James Henderson based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, Cyrano de Bergerac. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on February 27, 1913, with Pasquale Amato in the title role and Frances Alda as Roxane.