Crossword-Solution: ROSTAND 7 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

CHAPTER 3—Cyrano, Rostand, Coquelin Among the proverbs of Spanish folk-lore there is a saying that good wine retains its flavor in spite of rude bottles and cracked cups.

Rostand’s brilliant drama, _Cyrano de Bergerac_, in its English dress proves once more the truth of this adage.

Rostand has since told me that at one time she seriously feared for his reason if not for his life, as he averaged ten hours a day steady work, and when the spell was on him would pass night after night at his study table, rewriting, cutting, modelling his play, never contented, always striving after a more expressive adjective, a more harmonious or original rhyme, casting aside a month’s finished work without a second thought when he judged that another form expressed his idea more perfectly.

Rostand, in _Cyrano de Bergerac_, has shown us the “Cadets” of Molière’s time, a fighting, rhyming, devil-may-care band, who wore their hearts on their sleeves and chips on their stalwart shoulders; much such a brotherhood, in short, as we love to imagine that Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, Greene, and their intimates formed when they met at the “Ship” to celebrate a success or drink a health to the drama.

Rostand’s genius) come delightfully near realizing the happy conditions of other days, and—less the fighting—form as joyous and picturesque a company as their historic elders.