Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Edmond Rostand
Standard Name: Rostand, Edmond
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27 |
| Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | Edith Craig
's Pioneer Players
mounted a production of Two Pierrots, EL
's adaptation of Rostand
's play Les deux Pierrots (which has been described as a curtain-raiser), at London's Little Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 797 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Features | Caroline Bowles | Adrienne is courted by an English soldier, Walter Barnard, who is also an unaffected lover of elegant literature. Bowles, Caroline. “La petite Madelaine”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 30 , pp. 205-27. 213 |
| Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
adapted Edmond Rostand
's drama L'Aiglon for the English stage. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 137 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 98 |
Timeline
17 October 1922: The first play to be broadcast in the UK,...
Building item
17 October 1922
The first play to be broadcast in the UK, a shortened version of Edmond Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, was aired by radio station 2MT at Writtle, near Chelmsford, Essex.
Texts
Dane, Clemence et al. L’Aiglon. Doubleday, Doran, 1934.