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    The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts
    The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts
    The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts
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    The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts

    By Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark and Edmond Rostand

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 1987
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      The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts - Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Romancers, by Edmond Rostand

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts

      Author: Edmond Rostand

      Translator: Barrett H. Clark

      Release Date: January 23, 2006 [EBook #17581] [Date last updated: January 11, 2009]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROMANCERS ***

      Produced by Kent Cooper

      THE ROMANCERS

      (Les Romanesques)

      Comedy in Three Acts

      by

      EDMOND ROSTAND

      Translated by Barrett H. Clark 1915

      [[ Untitled INTRODUCTORY NOTES from 1915 publication by

      Samuel French: Publisher, New York:

      EDMOND ROSTAND

      Edmond Rostand was born at Marseilles in 1868. Rostand is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant dramatic poets of modern times. Les Romanesques—The Romancers—was performed for the first time in Paris, at the Comedie Francaise, in 1894, and achieved considerable success. Its delicacy and charm revealed the true poet, and the deftness with which the plot was handled left little doubt as to the author's ability to construct an interesting and moving drama. But not until the production of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897 did Rostand become known to the world at large. L'Aiglon (1900) was something of a disappointment after the brilliant Cyrano. Ten years later came Chantecler, the poet's deepest and in many ways most masterly play.

      The Romancers is best played in the romantic atmosphere of the late Eighteenth century; the costumes should be Louis XVI. The stage-directions are sufficiently detailed. ]]

      * * * * *

      [Transcriber's note: The Romancers is the basis for the plot of the 1960 musical The Fantasticks, with music by Harvey Schmidt, book and lyrics by Tom Jones.]

      * * * * *

      THE ROMANCERS

      Persons in the Play

      SYLVETTE

      PERCINET

      STRAFOREL

      BERGAMIN (Percinet's father)

      PASQUINOT (Sylvette's father)

      BLAISE (A gardener)

      A WALL (Not a speaking part)

      Swordsmen, musicians, negroes, torch-bearers, a notary, four

      witnesses, and other supernumeraries.

      The action takes place anywhere, provided the costumes are pretty.

      * * * * *

      ACT I

      SCENE: The stage is divided by an old wall, covered with vines and flowers. At the right, a corner of BERGAMIN's private park; at the left, a corner of PASQUINOT's. On each side of the wall, and against it, is a rustic bench. As the curtain rises, PERCINET is seated on the top of the wall. On his knee is a book, out of which he is reading to SYLVETTE, who stands attentively listening on the bench which is on the other side of the wall.

      SYLVETTE. Monsieur Percinet, how divinely beautiful!

      PERCINET. Is it not? Listen to what Romeo answers: [Reading]

        "It was the lark, the herald of the morn,

        No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks

        Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

        Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

        Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops:

        I must be gone"—

      SYLVETTE. [Interrupts him, as she listens.] Sh!

      PERCINET. [Listens a moment, then] No one! And, Mademoiselle, you must not take fright like a startled bird. Hear the immortal lovers:

        "Juliet. Yon light is not the daylight, I know it, I,

        It is some meteor that the sun exhales,

        To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,

        And light thee on thy way to Mantua:

        Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone.

      Romeo. Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;

        I am content, so thou will have it so.

        I'll say, yon gray is not the morning's eye,

        'Tis but the pale reflex of

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