Chantecler Play in Four Acts - Edmond Rostand - Bog

""Chantecler"" is a play written by French playwright Edmond Rostand. The play is divided into four acts and tells the story of a rooster named Chantecler who believes that his crowing brings the sun up every morning. The play explores themes of love, jealousy, and the power of belief. Chantecler finds himself in a love triangle with a hen named Pheasant and a pheasant named Golden Pheasant. As the play progresses, Chantecler's belief in his own importance is challenged, and he must come to terms with his own limitations. The play is known for its poetic language and its use of animal characters to explore human emotions. It was first performed in Paris in 1910 and has since been adapted into several different languages and forms.1910. Rostand was a French dramatist whose plays represent the final flowering of the 19th-century romantic tradition. His greatest work, Cyrano de Bergerac was a dazzling popular success and remains a worldwide favorite to this day. One of Rostand's earlier works, The Romancers has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy The Fantasticks, the longest running musical in theater history. His last play, Chantecler, is a fantasy that casts all the characters as animals.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.