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Cyrano de Bergerac
A Play in Five Acts
The Characters CYRANO DE BERGERAC CHRISTIAN DE NEUVILLETTE COUNT DE GUICHE RAGUENEAU LE BRET CARBON DE CASTEL-JALOUX THE CADETS LIGNI?RE DE VALVERT A MARQUIS SECOND MARQUIS THIRD MARQUIS MONTFLEURY BELLEROSE JODELET CUIGY BRISSAILLE THE DOORKEEPER A LACKEY A SECOND LACKEY A BORE A MUSKETEER ANOTHER A SPANISH OFFICER A PORTER A BURGHER HIS SON A PICKPOCKET A SPECTATOR A GUARDSMAN BERTRAND THE FIFER A MONK TWO MUSICIANS THE POETS THE PASTRY COOKS ROXANE SISTER MARTHA LISE THE BUFFET-GIRL MOTHER MARGUERITE THE DUENNA SISTER CLAIRE AN ACTRESS THE PAGES THE SHOP-GIRL
The crowd, troopers, burghers , marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors , violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators , precieuses, nuns, etc.
A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne.
The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance.
The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible.
On both sides of the stage are benches. The curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. Above a harlequin's mantle are the royal arms. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall; on either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Footlights.
Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theater; at the back of the pit, i.e., on the right foreground, some benches forming steps, and underneath, a staircase which leads to the upper seats. An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc.
The entrance to the theater is in the center of the background, under the gallery of the boxes. A large door, half open to let in the spectators. On the panels of this door, in different corners, and over the buffet, red placards bearing the words, 'La Clorise.'
At the rising of the curtain the hall is in semi-darkness, and still empty. The lusters are lowered in the middle of the pit ready to be lighted.
The public, arriving by degrees. Troopers, burghers, lackeys, pages, a pickpocket, the doorkeeper, etc., followed by the marquises. Cuigy, Brissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc.
THE DOORKEEPER : Hollo! You there! Your money!
THE TROOPER: I enter gratis.
THE DOORKEEPER: Why?
THE TROOPER: Why? I am of the King's Household Cavalry, 'faith!
THE DOORKEEPER : And you?
SECOND TROOPER: I pay nothing.
THE DOORKEEPER: How so?
SECOND TROOPER: I am a musketeer.
FIRST TROOPER : The play will not begin till two. The pit is empty. Come, a bout with the foils to pass the time.
A LACKEY : Pst. . .Flanquin. . .!
ANOTHER : Champagne?. . .
THE FIRST : See, here be cards and dice. : Let's play.
THE SECOND : Good; I am with you, villain!
FIRST LACKEY : I made free to provide myself with light at my master's expense!
A GUARDSMAN : 'Twas prettily done to come before the lights were lit!
ONE OF THE FENCERS : A hit!
ONE OF THE CARD-PLAYERS: Clubs!
THE GUARDSMAN : A kiss!
THE SHOP-GIRL : They're looking!
THE GUARDSMAN : No fear! No one can see!
A BURGHER : Let us sit here, son.
A CARD-PLAYER: Triple ace!
A MAN : A tippler may well quaff his Burgundy : in the Burgundy Hotel!
THE BURGHER : 'Faith! A man might think he had fallen in a bad house here! : What with topers! : brawlers! : gamblers!
THE GUARDSMAN : Come, one kiss!
THE YOUNG MAN: Ay, and Corneille!
A TROOP OF PAGES : Tra' a la, la, la, la, la, la, la, lere. . .
THE DOORKEEPER : You pages there, none of your tricks!. . .
FIRST PAGE : Oh, sir!--such a suspicion!. . . : Have you string?
THE SECOND: Ay, and a fish-hook with it.
FIRST PAGE: We can angle for wigs, then, up there i' th' gallery.
A PICKPOCKET : Hark ye, young cut-purses, lend an ear, while I give you your first lesson in thieving.
SECOND PAGE : You there! Have you peashooters?
THIRD PAGE : Ay, have we, and peas withal!
THE YOUNG MAN : What piece do they give us?
THE BURGHER: 'Clorise.'
THE YOUNG MAN: Who may the author be?
THE BURGHER: Master Balthazar Baro. It is a play!. . .
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