History Theatre / CyranodeBergerac

* ArcWords: ''Panache''. Hooker translated it as "white plume", while decades later Burgess kept it as ''panache''. Both approaches have their merits: while keeping ''panache'' untranslated makes the symbolic meaning immediately clear (and [[SchoolStudyMedia students]] would probably have an easier time with "What does the white plume symbolize" essays), in the context of the play Cyrano is talking about an actual decoration that is used to symbolize something, not just the concept or quality of ''panache'', akin to how an ancient Roman might talk about "laurels".

* GagNose

* GeniusBruiser: Cyrano
* GentlemanSnarker: Cyrano

* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Inverted with Cyrano: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac Look at this contemporary portrait at the other Wiki]]. Portraits of Cyrano suggest that he did have a big nose, true, though not nearly as large to justify to an audience all the fuss Cyrano makes about it. So, this Historical Domain Character must look much ''worse'' in theater/movies than he actually did in real life for the play to make sense. Just compare the portrait with [[http://mccauluwsherburn.blogspot.com/2010/06/cyrano-de-bergerac.html those images of Cyrano’s depiction in theater and movies]].

* LargeHam: Depardieu as Cyrano in TheMovie.

There are two notable film adaptations: one from 1950 in English (using the Hooker translation) which garnered a Best Actor for Creator/JoseFerrer, and the rapturously-acclaimed [[Film/CyranoDeBergerac 1990 French version]] directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Creator/GerardDepardieu (with the Burgess translation later used for subtitles); the latter is notable for being one of a small percentage of films to achieve a perfect 100% rating on WebSite/RottenTomatoes. In addition, the 1987 movie ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', starring Steve Martin, is a [[SettingUpdate modernized take]] on the story; while not as acclaimed as the 1990 film, it's also considered highly worth watching. The Disney Channel original movie ''Let it Shine'' is also clearly based off of this play, even going as far as to giving the main characters similar names (Cyrano= Cyrus; Christian= Chris; Roxanne= Roxy, whose full name is actually Roxanne). ''Film/SierraBurgessIsALoser'' and ''Film/TheHalfOfIt'' are HighSchoolAU adaptations of the story, with the latter putting a queer twist to it.

There were also a couple of [[TheMusical Musical]] adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); another, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in the Netherlands in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run. A third, also titled ''Cyrano'' written by Erica Schmidt with songs by Music/TheNational, ran off-Broadway in 2018-2019 and has since been adapted into a [[Film/{{Cyrano}} film]] directed by Creator/JoeWright for a 2021 release. Both the original stage production and the film star Creator/PeterDinklage, and so [[HeightAngst it's his height]] rather than his nose that's the issue.

The 2019 French film ''Film/{{Edmond|2019}}'' is a fictional account of Rostand's life that's centered around the writing and first stagings of the play in the late 1890s.

There were also a couple of [[TheMusical Musical]] adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); another, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in Holland in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run. A third, also titled ''Cyrano'' written by Erica Schmidt with songs by Music/TheNational, ran off-Broadway in 2019 and has since been adapted into a [[Film/{{Cyrano}} film]] directed by Creator/JoeWright for a 2021 release. Both the original stage production and the film star Creator/PeterDinklage, and so [[HeightAngst it's his height]] rather than his nose that's the issue.

The play is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac there really was]] a French playwright, duelist, and ghost writer of love letters named Cyrano de Bergerac, and the main characters in the play (Roxane, Christian, Le Bret, De Guiche) also existed. This play is as well researched as a RomanAClef, because Rostand was an academic that researched France’s literary environment [[TheCavalierYears at the 17th century]], so all the [[HistoricalDomainCharacter incidental writers, poets, actors]], period pieces, places and battles [[ShownTheirWork really existed at that time]].

There are two notable film adaptations: one from 1950 in English (using the Hooker translation) which garnered a Best Actor for [[Creator/JoseFerrer José Ferrer]], and the rapturously-acclaimed [[Film/CyranoDeBergerac 1990 French version]] directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Creator/GerardDepardieu (with the Burgess translation later used for subtitles); the latter is notable for being one of a small percentage of films to achieve a perfect 100% rating on WebSite/RottenTomatoes. In addition, the 1987 movie ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', starring Steve Martin, is a [[SettingUpdate modernized take]] on the story; while not as acclaimed as the 1990 film, it's also considered highly worth watching. The Disney Channel original movie ''Let it Shine'' is also clearly based off of this play, even going as far as to giving the main characters similar names (Cyrano= Cyrus; Christian= Chris; Roxanne= Roxy, whose full name is actually Roxanne). ''Film/SierraBurgessIsALoser'' and ''Film/TheHalfOfIt'' are HighSchoolAU adaptations of the story, with the latter putting a queer twist to it.

There were also a couple of {{Musical}} adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); another, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in Holland in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run. A third, also titled ''Cyrano'' written by Erica Schmidt with songs by Music/TheNational, ran off-Broadway in 2019 and has since been adapted into a [[Film/{{Cyrano}} film]] directed by Creator/JoeWright for a 2021 release. Both the original stage production and the film star Creator/PeterDinklage, and so [[PragmaticAdaptation it's his height]] rather than his nose that's the issue.

There were also a couple of {{Musical}} adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); another, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in Holland in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run. A third, also titled ''Cyrano'' written by Erica Schmidt with songs by Music/TheNational, ran off-Broadway in 2019 and has since been adapted into a film directed by Creator/JoeWright for a 2021 release. Both the original stage production and the film star Creator/PeterDinklage, and so [[PragmaticAdaptation it's his height]] rather than his nose that's the issue.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Cyrano, in his own way. He can fight off a hundred men easily enough, but he doesn't have the courage to explain his feelings to the woman he loves.

** De Guiche likens Cyrano to Literature/DonQuixote, causing Cyrano to point out that that puts De Guiche in the roll of the windmill.

** '''Count:''' De Guiche is a {{Jerkass}} who wants to Bully Roxane into being TheMistress, prepares an UriahGambit and a LastStand for all the guys who had humiliated him.

** In the play, Cyrano has only a single love, a woman. The real Cyrano was purportedly homosexual, however this claim has very little evidence to back this up, leading some to believe he may have been bisexual.

* ArcWords: ''Panache''. Hooker translated it as "white plume", while decades later Burgess kept it as ''panache''.

There were also a couple of {{Musical}} adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); another, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in Holland in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run. A third, also titled ''Cyrano'' written by Erica Schmidt with songs by Music/TheNational, ran off-Broadway in 2019 and has since been adapted into a film directed by Creator/JoeWright for a 2021 release. Both the original stage production and the film star Creator/PeterDinklage, and so the stuff about his nose becomes[[PragmaticAdaptation just a euphemism for his height.]]

There were also a couple of {{Musical}} adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); another, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in Holland in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run. A third, also titled ''Cyrano'' written by Erica Schmidt with songs by Music/TheNational, ran off-Broadway in 2019 and has since been adapted into a film directed by Creator/JoeWright for a 2021 release. Both the original stage production and the film star Creator/PeterDinklage.

** When you take into account the historical Cyrano was pretty open about his bisexuality, and that his favorite joke was, that as he was ashamed of it he had to hide behind another man…

There are two notable film adaptations: one from 1950 in English (using the Hooker translation) which garnered a Best Actor for [[Creator/JoseFerrer José Ferrer]], and the rapturously-acclaimed [[Film/CyranoDeBergerac 1990 French version]] directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Creator/GerardDepardieu (with the Burgess translation later used for subtitles); the latter is notable for being one of a small percentage of films to achieve a perfect 100% rating on WebSite/RottenTomatoes. In addition, the 1987 movie ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', starring Steve Martin, is a [[SettingUpdate modernized take]] on the story; while not as acclaimed as the 1990 film, it's also considered highly worth watching. The Disney Channel original movie ''Let it Shine'' is also clearly based off of this play, even going as far as to giving the main characters similar names (Cyrano= Cyrus; Christian= Chris; Roxanne= Roxy, whose full name is actually Roxanne).

!!Tropes featured include:

* AnalogyBackfire: Cyrano compares himself to [[ShoutOut Caesar and Titus]] to justify why he cannot win Roxane’s love. Caesar and Titus were loved not because they were fair but because they were highly charismatic leaders, like Cyrano himself, as Le Bret points out.

* AmbitionIsEvil: The Gascon [[BlueAndOrangeMorality moral code]] doesn’t approve of getting power through connections instead of personal valor.

** '''Count:''' De Guiche is a JerkAss who wants to Bully Roxane into being TheMistress, prepares an UriahGambit and a LastStand for all the guys who had humiliated him.

** '''Viscount:''' De Valvert is a JerkAss willing to be TheBeard for Count De Guiche.
* ArrangedMarriage: Implied in De Guiche’s marriage, De Guiche tried it with Roxana and De Valvert, and Invoked with Christian and Roxane.

** Acte V is explicitely set in 1655, yet it mentions Molière's ''The Schemes of Scapin'', which was created much later (the premiere was in 1671).

* BadassBoast: Cyrano’s gasconades are spread among the entire play beginning with Act I Scene IV.
--> '''De Guiche:''' Oh, ay! Another Gascon boast!

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Being a member of Les Precieuses, Roxane believes that if Christian is fair, [[BeautyEqualsGoodness therefore he must be eloquent]].

--> '''Roxane''': Live, for I love you! \\
'''Cyrano''': No, In fairy tales \\

'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast -- \\

* BerserkButton: The cadets warn their new recruit Christian not to mention the word "nose" around Cyrano if he values his life. Christian decides to show off by doing it anyway, pushing Cyrano nearly to strangle him. Some actors portraying Cyrano show him growing more visibly annoyed at Christian's interruptions and play up the comedy of his attempting to compose himself. But before this scene, he roasted then wounded de Valvert in a duel for saying "you have a big nose".

-->'''Christian''': I will be loved myself -- or not at all!

-->'''First poet''': We were stayed by the mob; they are crowded all round the Porte de Nesle!... \\
'''Second poet''': Eight bleeding brigand carcasses strew the pavements there—all slit open \\

'''Cyrano''' ''[raising his head a minute from writing his love letter]'': Eight?... hold, methought seven. \\
''[He goes on writing.]''

* CausticCritic: Cyrano of Montfleury and The Precieuses.

'''The Bore''' ''(stammering):'' No, small, quite small--minute! \\

Small--my nose?

** The character of Magdeleine Robin alias Roxane in a mix of two actual people: Magdeleine Robineau, the cousin of Cyrano and wife of the real-life Christian de Neuvillette, and [[NamesTheSame her (unrelated) homonym Marie Robineau]], a ''precieuse'' [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname who was going by the name of "Roxane"]].

* CrackIsCheaper: This attitude is shown InUniverse (and deconstructed) by the baker [[FanDumb Ragueneau]] in this play. His wife Lise remembers a time when he was a normal person, a SupremeChef with a successful bakery. But over time, he gets infatuated with the poets and his lifestyle. In the first Act, he pays theater’s tickets with pies. By the second Act, he accepts poems in return for his food, [[ConspicuousConsumption he pays too much money to an assistant for baking a pie with the form of a lyre]] and cannot renounce to even one of his precious poems. He will be completely ruined in the beginning of the third Act, abandoned by his neglected wife Lise and he will attempt an InterruptedSuicide.

--> '''Cyrano:''' Never on me had rested woman's love. \\

--> '''Viscount de Valvert:''' Base scoundrel! Rascally flat-footed lout! \\
'''Cyrano''': ''(taking off his hat, and bowing as if the viscount had introduced himself)'' Ah? And I, Cyrano Savinien \\

* InterruptedSuicide: Cyrano does this for Ragueneau.

* JerkAss: This play deconstructs this trope, as a matter of fact; it’s easier to mention the people who don’t act like a jerkass to someone, sometime in the play. [[note]](Le Bret, the buffet Girl, the nuns)[[/note]]

-->'''Carbon''': It is perchance more seemly, since things are thus, that I present to you some of these gentlemen who are about to have the honour of dying before your eyes.\\

'''The Cadet''': Madame...\\
'''Carbon''' ''(continuing)'': Baron de Casterac de Cahuzac,- Vidame de Malgouyre Estressac Lesbas d'Escarabiot, Chevalier d'Antignac-Juzet, Baron Hillot de Blagnac- Salechan de Castel Crabioules...\\
'''Roxane'''. ''But how many names have you each?''\\
'''Baron Hillot''': ''Scores!'' (''"Des foules!"'')

--> '''Ragueneau:''' Have you been in some danger?
--> '''Cyrano:''' [[BlatantLies None in the world.]]
--> '''Lise:''' ''(shaking her finger at him)'' Methinks you speak not the truth in saying that!
--> '''Cyrano:''' [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Did you see my nose quiver when I spoke?]] 'Faith, it must have been a
--> monstrous lie that should move it!

-->'''Cyrano''': True; all my elegances are within.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Count De Guiche.

There were also a couple of {{Musical}} adaptations. One, simply titled ''Cyrano'', ran on Broadway in 1973 but closed after just 49 performances (although Creator/ChristopherPlummer won a Tony in the title role); the other, ''Cyrano: The Musical'', was originally produced in Holland in 1992 and then translated to English for a 137-performance Broadway run.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt

** In the play, Cyrano has only a single love, a woman. The real Cyrano was homosexual and had many adventures.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Cyrano, Christian and De Guiche love Roxane, but not one of them will get her. Roxane won’t get any guy too, because she's been LovingAShadow. Even Ragueneau is abandoned [[YourCheatingHeart by his wife, Lise]]. Nobody gets anyone.

* CrackIsCheaper: This attitude is shown InUniverse (and deconstructed) by the baker [[FanDumb Ragueneau]] in this play. His wife Lise remembers a time when he was a normal person, a SupremeChef with a successful bakery. But over time, he gets infatuated with the poets and his lifestyle. In the first Act, he pays theater’s tickets with pies. By the second Act, he accepts poems in return for his food, [[ConspicuousConsumption he pays too much money to an assistant for baking a pie with the form of a lyre]] and cannot renounce to even one of his precious poems. He will be completely ruined in the beginning of the third Act, [[YourCheatingHeart abandoned by his neglected wife Lise]] and he will attempt an InterruptedSuicide.

* TheCavalierYears: The setting.

There are two notable film adaptations: one from 1950 in English (using the Hooker translation) which garnered a Best Actor for José Ferrer, and the rapturously-acclaimed [[Film/CyranoDeBergerac 1990 French version]] directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Creator/GerardDepardieu (with the Burgess translation later used for subtitles); the latter is notable for being one of a small percentage of films to achieve a perfect 100% rating on WebSite/RottenTomatoes. In addition, the 1987 movie ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', starring Steve Martin, is a [[SettingUpdate modernized take]] on the story; while not as acclaimed as the 1990 film, it's also considered highly worth watching. The Disney Channel original movie ''Let it Shine'' is also clearly based off of this play, even going as far as to giving the main characters similar names (Cyrano= Cyrus; Christian= Chris; Roxanne= Roxy, whose full name is actually Roxanne).

The play is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac there really was]] a French playwright, duelist, and ghost writer of love letters named Cyrano de Bergerac, and the main characters in the play (Roxane, Christian, Le Bret, De Guiche) also existed. This play is as well researched as a RomanAClef, because Rostand was an academic that researched France’s literary environment [[TheCavalierYears at the 17th century]], so all the [[HistoricalDomainCharacter incidental writers, poets, actors]], period pieces, places and battles [[ShownTheirWork really existed at that time]].

There are two notable film adaptations: one from 1950 in English (using the Hooker translation) which garnered a Best Actor for José Ferrer, and the acclaimed [[Film/CyranoDeBergerac 1990 French version]] directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Creator/GerardDepardieu (with the Burgess translation later used for subtitles). In addition, the 1987 movie ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', starring Steve Martin, is a modernized take on the story. The Disney Channel original movie ''Let it Shine'' is also clearly based off of this play, even going as far as to giving the main characters similar names (Cyrano= Cyrus; Christian= Chris; Roxanne= Roxy, whose full name is actually Roxanne).

-->Philosophe, physicien,\\

* BuyThemOff: Used by Cyrano after he refuses to apologize to the Burgundy Theater's audience for interrupting ''[[ShowWithinAShow La Clorise]]''; he pays Bellerose for all the entrance fees so they can give it back to the public. Cyrano uses it to bribe the Duenna to leave her and Roxane alone, and De Guiche invokes it with Cyrano and Cardenal Richelieu's patronage.

* TheGhost: Cardinal Richelieu, [[TheManBehindTheMan the most powerful man in France]].

** The character of Magdeleine Robin alias Roxane in a mix of two actual people : Magdeleine Robineau, the wife of the real-life Christian de Neuvillette and [[NamesTheSame her (unrelated) homonym Marie Robineau]], a ''precieuse'' [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname who was going by the name of "Roxane"]].

** Christian de Neuvillette existed, but his real name was "Christ''ophe''" de Neuvillette.