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Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), French free-thinking writer and soldier, author of L'Autre monde (Moon 1657, Sun 1662), early science fiction; subject of Rostand's 1897 play.
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's five-act verse comédie héroïque premiered 28 December 1897 at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, adapts the 1619–1655 libertine writer into the nose-proud hero who ghost-writes Christian's love letters to Roxane.
Jean Genet
Jean Genet (1910–1986), French poet, novelist, playwright, and activist; author of Our Lady of the Flowers, The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks, and The Screens; ex-convict pardoned in 1949, later Black Panther and Palestinian supporter.
Jean Racine
Jean Racine, also known as Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist born at La Ferté-Milon in 1639 whose classical tragedies include Phèdre and Britannicus.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgian Flemish-born francophone Symbolist playwright, poet, and essayist from Ghent; 1911 Nobel laureate; author of Pelléas et Mélisande and L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird).
Molière
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–1673), French actor, troupe leader, and comic playwright; author of Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme; director of the King's Troupe under Louis XIV; French is called his language.
No Exit
No Exit (Huis clos) is a 1944 one-act play by Jean-Paul Sartre in which three dead characters torment each other in a room in hell.
Rhinoceros (play)
Rhinocéros (Les Rhinocéros, The Rhinoceros) is Eugène Ionesco's 1959 three-act, four-tableau absurdist play in which a French town's inhabitants become rhinoceroses until only Bérenger resists; premiered in Düsseldorf 1959 and Paris 1960.
The Barber of Seville (play)
Beaumarchais's four-act prose comedy Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile (1775, Comédie-Française), source of the Paisiello and Rossini operas, about Count Almaviva's rescue of Rosine from Bartholo via Figaro.