Valvert makes jokes about Cyrano’s nose, and in response, Cyrano challenges Valvert to a duel. Cyrano’s close friends, Le Bret and Ragueneau, explain that Cyrano is a talented, clever gentleman, and warn their peers not to make fun of Cyrano’s nose. Members of the audience complain that Cyrano is ruining the play, but they fall silent when Cyrano draws his sword. The man, Cyrano de Bergerac, who has an enormous nose, explains that he has banned the play’s principle actor, Montfluery, from ever appearing in a play again. Valvert is acting on the behalf of the powerful Count de Guiche, a man who’s clearly attracted to Roxane, but who already has a fiancée.Īs the play begins, a stranger shouts, “Stop!” and jumps onto the stage. Ligniere explains that Roxane is being pursued by the young, haughty Viscount de Valvert. That night, he learns from a local drunk, Ligniere, that the woman’s name is Roxane. Lately, Christian has become enamored with a beautiful young woman. At the play is a young, handsome Baron named Christian de Neuvillette. In Paris in 1640, a large, boisterous group of city-dwellers attends a bawdy play.
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