VCE Literature Texts: Cyrano de Bergerac

• Edmond Rostand Biography

• The man who was Cyrano 
• Britannica Biographies - Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac

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• Some Classical Aspects of Cyrano de Bergerac by Patricia Elliott Williams Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1973), pp. 112-124 (13 pages)
• Cyrano de Bergerac: The Adventures of Narcissism in Edmond Rostand's Heroic Comedy in Verse by Areti Spyropoulou American Imago, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 337-349 (13 pages)

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• Moss, Joyce, and George Wilson.(1997)  Overview: Cyrano de Bergerac Literature and Its Times:, Gale,
• Overview: Cyrano de Bergerac. (1993) Characters in 19th-Century Literature, edited by Kelly King Howes, Gale, . Gale Literature Resource Center,
• Lamm, M. (1991). The First Symbolists. (K. Elliott, Trans.). In P. Kepos (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 37). Gale. (Reprinted from Modern Drama, pp. 152-178, 1953, Philosophical Library)
• Freeman, E. (1999). Cyrano de Bergerac: Mythopoeia Triumphant. In L. J. Trudeau (Ed.), Drama Criticism (Vol. 10). Gale. (Reprinted from Cyrano de Bergerac, pp. 21-47, 1995, University of Glasgow French and German Publications)

Cliff Notes Study Guides

• About Cyrano de Bergerac 
• Critical essays Cyrano de Bergerac as History
• Summary and Analysis

Spark Notes Study Guides

• Study Guide Full Summary
• Themes
• Character Analysis

LitCharts Study Guide