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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
A Play in Five Acts
by
Edmond Rostand
Translated from the French by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard
The Characters CYRANO DE BERGERAC CHRISTIAN DE
NEUVILLETTE COUNT DE GUICHE RAGUENEAU LE BRET
CARBON DE CASTEL-JALOUX THE CADETS LIGNIERE DE
VALVERT A MARQUIS SECOND MARQUIS THIRD MARQUIS
MONTFLEURY BELLEROSE JODELET CUIGY BRISSAILLE
THE DOORKEEPER A LACKEY A SECOND LACKEY A BORE A
MUSKETEER ANOTHER A SPANISH OFFICER A PORTER A
BURGHER HIS SON A PICKPOCKET A SPECTATOR A
GUARDSMAN BERTRAND THE FIFER A MONK TWO
MUSICIANS THE POETS THE PASTRY COOKS ROXANE
SISTER MARTHA LISE THE BUFFET-GIRL MOTHER
MARGUERITE THE DUENNA SISTER CLAIRE AN ACTRESS
THE PAGES THE SHOP-GIRL
The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises,
musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors
(male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards,
spectators (male and female), precieuses, nuns, etc.
Act I.
A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne.
The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court
arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance.
The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the
back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an
angle with the stage, which is partly visible.
On both sides of the stage are benches. The curtain is composed of two
tapestries which can be drawn aside. Above a harlequin's mantle are the
royal arms. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall; on either
side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Footlights.
Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into
boxes. No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the
theater; at the back of the pit, i.e., on the right foreground, some
benches forming steps, and underneath, a staircase which leads to the
upper seats. An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases,
glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc.
The entrance to the theater is in the center of the background, under the
gallery of the boxes. A large door, half open to let in the spectators. On
the panels of this door, in different corners, and over the buffet, red
placards bearing the words, 'La Clorise.'
At the rising of the curtain the hall is in semi-darkness, and still empty.
The lusters are lowered in the middle of the pit ready to be lighted.
Scene 1.I.
The public, arriving by degrees. Troopers, burghers, lackeys, pages, a
pickpocket, the doorkeeper, etc., followed by the marquises. Cuigy,
Brissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc.
(A confusion of loud voices is heard outside the door. A trooper enters
hastily.)
THE DOORKEEPER (following him): Hollo! You there! Your money!
THE TROOPER: I enter gratis.
THE DOORKEEPER: Why?
THE TROOPER: Why? I am of the King's Household Cavalry, 'faith!
THE DOORKEEPER (to another trooper who 
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