Cyrano de Bergerac: A Nose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
4 min readOct 4, 2019
I was first captivated by the story of Cyrano de Bergerac when I had a bit part in a college production of Edmund Rostand’s famous play. For those who are unfamiliar, Cyrano de Bergerac is a swashbuckling poet with a monstrous nose — a character who makes more enemies than friends and who practices swordplay and wordplay at the same time, composing poems against pride and…