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4,541 | 1254_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ragueneau and the poets return. Since they have learned that Cyrano was the brave swordsman at the Porte de Nesle, one of the poets wants to write a verse about Cyrano's feat; Cyrano, however, is not interested. Immediately after them enter a group of men from Cyrano's regiment, led by Captain Carbon de Castel Jaloux. ... | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, who are eating and drinking at the tables right\nand left.",
"CYRANO (bowing mockingly to those who go out without daring to salute him):\n Gentlemen. . .Gentlemen. . .",
"LE BRET (coming back, despairingly):\n Here's a fine coil!",
"CYRANO:\n Oh! scold away!",
"LE BRET:\n ... |
4,542 | 1254_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In an effort to educate the newcomer, the Cadets warn Christian de Neuvillette that he should never mention Cyrano's nose. Christian, however, wants to prove that he is brave. As a result, he interrupts Cyrano as he tells his friends about his fight at the Porte de Nesle. Christian then criticizes Cyrano's nose. Cyrano... | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, Christian de Neuvillette.",
"A CADET (seated at a table, glass in hand):\n Cyrano!\n(Cyrano turns round):\n The story!",
"CYRANO:\n In its time!",
"(He goes up on Le Bret's arm. They talk in low voices.)",
"THE CADET (rising and coming down):\n The story of the fray! 'Twi... |
4,543 | 1254_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In an effort to educate the newcomer, the Cadets warn Christian de Neuvillette that he should never mention Cyrano's nose. Christian, however, wants to prove that he is brave. As a result, he interrupts Cyrano as he tells his friends about his fight at the Porte de Nesle. Christian then criticizes Cyrano's nose. Cyrano... | [
"Cyrano, Christian.",
"CYRANO:\n Embrace me now!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Sir. . .",
"CYRANO:\n You are brave.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Oh! but. . .",
"CYRANO:\n Nay, I insist.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Pray tell me. . .",
"CYRANO:\n Come, embrace! I am her brother.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Whose brother?",
"CYRANO:\n Hers ... |
4,511 | 1254_scene_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In an effort to educate the newcomer, the Cadets warn Christian de Neuvillette that he should never mention Cyrano's nose. Christian, however, wants to prove that he is brave. As a result, he interrupts Cyrano as he tells his friends about his fight at the Porte de Nesle. Christian then criticizes Cyrano's nose. Cyrano... | [
"Cyrano, Christian, the Gascons, the musketeer, Lise.",
"A CADET (half opening the door):\n Naught here!. . .The silence of the grave!\n I dare not look. . .\n(He puts his head in):\n Why?. . .",
"ALL THE CADETS (entering, and seeing Cyrano and Christian embracing):\n Oh!. . .",
"A CADET:\n This passes a... |
4,512 | 1254_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When this scene opens, Ragueneau is talking to Roxane's governess about what has happened to him. The audience learns that Lise has run off with the musketeer. Ragueneau was so upset by her desertion that he tired to hang himself. Cyrano, however, saved him and made arrangements for him to become a steward for Roxane. ... | [
"Ragueneau, the duenna. Then Roxane, Cyrano, and two pages.",
"RAGUENEAU:\n --And then, off she went, with a musketeer! Deserted and ruined too, I\nwould make an end of all, and so hanged myself. My last breath was drawn:--\nthen in comes Monsieur de Bergerac! He cuts me down, and begs his cousin to\ntake me... |
4,544 | 1254_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Count De Guiche has come to bid farewell to Roxane, for he has been made a Colonel of the Guards and is to take part in the siege of Arras. Since the Guards include the regimental company of the Cadets, which include both Christian and Cyrano, Roxane tricks De Guiche. She talks him into taking revenge on Cyrano by depr... | [
"Roxane, De Guiche, the duenna standing a little way off.",
"ROXANE (courtesying to De Guiche):\n I was going out.",
"DE GUICHE:\n I come to take my leave.",
"ROXANE:\n Whither go you?",
"DE GUICHE:\n To the war.",
"ROXANE:\n Ah!",
"DE GUICHE:\n Ay, to-night.",
"ROXANE:\n Oh!",
"DE GUICHE:\n ... |
4,545 | 1254_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Roxane and her governess depart for the meeting at Clomire's, she asks Cyrano to tell Christian to await her return. Cyrano asks Roxane what subject she desires Christian to discuss today. She says that she wants him to speak about love, but Cyrano must not let Christian know. Of course, Cyrano tries to prepare ... | [
"Roxane, The duenna, Cyrano.",
"ROXANE:\n We are going to Clomire's house.\n(She points to the door opposite):\n Alcandre and Lysimon are to discourse!",
"THE DUENNA (putting her little finger in her ear):\n Yes! But my little finger tells me we shall miss them.",
"CYRANO:\n 'Twere a pity to miss such ap... |
4,514 | 1254_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Roxane and her governess depart for the meeting at Clomire's, she asks Cyrano to tell Christian to await her return. Cyrano asks Roxane what subject she desires Christian to discuss today. She says that she wants him to speak about love, but Cyrano must not let Christian know. Of course, Cyrano tries to prepare ... | [
"Cyrano, Christian.",
"CYRANO:\n I know all that is needful. Here's occasion\n For you to deck yourself with glory. Come,\n Lose no time; put away those sulky looks,\n Come to your house with me, I'll teach you. . .",
"CHRISTIAN:\n No!",
"CYRANO:\n Why?",
"CHRISTIAN:\n I will wait for Roxane here."... |
4,555 | 1254_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Roxane and her governess depart for the meeting at Clomire's, she asks Cyrano to tell Christian to await her return. Cyrano asks Roxane what subject she desires Christian to discuss today. She says that she wants him to speak about love, but Cyrano must not let Christian know. Of course, Cyrano tries to prepare ... | [
"Christian, Roxane, the duenna.",
"ROXANE (coming out of Clomire's house, with a company of friends, whom she\nleaves. Bows and good-byes):\n Barthenoide!--Alcandre!--Gremione!--",
"THE DUENNA (bitterly disappointed):\n We've missed the speech upon the Tender Passion!",
"(Goes into Roxane's house.)",
"RO... |
4,556 | 1254_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Roxane and her governess depart for the meeting at Clomire's, she asks Cyrano to tell Christian to await her return. Cyrano asks Roxane what subject she desires Christian to discuss today. She says that she wants him to speak about love, but Cyrano must not let Christian know. Of course, Cyrano tries to prepare ... | [
"Christian, Cyrano, two pages.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Come to my aid!",
"CYRANO:\n Not I!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n But I shall die,\n Unless at once I win back her fair favor.",
"CYRANO:\n And how can I, at once, i' th' devil's name,\n Lesson you in. . .",
"CHRISTIAN (seizing his arm):\n Oh, she is there!",
"(Th... |
4,557 | 1254_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As planned, Christian stands under Roxane's balcony and repeats the words that Cyrano tells him from his hiding place in the darkness. Although it is a wonderful figurative speech about love and its effects, Roxane is not pleased with its delivery. Christian speaks very haltingly, for he must constantly wait for Cyrano... | [
"Cyrano, Christian, a capuchin friar.",
"CYRANO (to the friar):\n What do you, playing at Diogenes?",
"THE FRIAR:\n I seek the house of Madame. . .",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Oh! plague take him!",
"THE FRIAR:\n Madeleine Robin. . .",
"CHRISTIAN:\n What would he?. . .",
"CYRANO (pointing to a street at the ba... |
4,558 | 1254_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The monk is looking for Roxane's house, but Cyrano coolly and cleverly misdirects him. The monk blesses Cyrano and goes merrily on his way. Christian reminds Cyrano to ask Roxane for a kiss once again. Although the audience realizes that the embrace will be painful for Cyrano, he sees the inevitability of these two att... | [
"Cyrano, Christian.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Oh! win for me that kiss. . .",
"CYRANO:\n No!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Soon or late!. . .",
"CYRANO:\n 'Tis true! The moment of intoxication--\n Of madness,--when your mouths are sure to meet\n Thanks to your fair mustache--and her rose lips!\n(To himself):\n I'd fainer i... |
4,559 | 1254_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The monk is looking for Roxane's house, but Cyrano coolly and cleverly misdirects him. The monk blesses Cyrano and goes merrily on his way. Christian reminds Cyrano to ask Roxane for a kiss once again. Although the audience realizes that the embrace will be painful for Cyrano, he sees the inevitability of these two att... | [
"Cyrano, Christian, Roxane.",
"ROXANE (coming out on the balcony):\n Still there?\n We spoke of a. . .",
"CYRANO:\n A kiss! The word is sweet.\n I see not why your lip should shrink from it;\n If the word burns it,--what would the kiss do?\n Oh! let it not your bashfulness affright;\n Have you not, all ... |
4,560 | 1254_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Roxane opens the window again, Cyrano resumes talking in Christian's voice, giving a charming dissertation on a kiss. Roxane is so stirred by the words that she wants Christian to immediately come up and give her that "matchless flower... of communion." Cyrano pushes Christian up towards the balcony so Christian c... | [
"Cyrano, Christian, Roxane, the friar, Ragueneau.",
"THE FRIAR:\n 'Tis here,--I'm sure of it--Madame Madeleine Robin.",
"CYRANO:\n Why, you said Ro-LIN.",
"THE FRIAR:\n No, not I.\n B,I,N,BIN!",
"ROXANE (appearing on the threshold, followed by Ragueneau, who carries a\nlantern, and Christian):\n What i... |
4,561 | 1254_scene_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Roxane opens the window again, Cyrano resumes talking in Christian's voice, giving a charming dissertation on a kiss. Roxane is so stirred by the words that she wants Christian to immediately come up and give her that "matchless flower... of communion." Cyrano pushes Christian up towards the balcony so Christian c... | [
"Cyrano, De Guiche.",
"DE GUICHE (who enters, masked, feeling his way in the dark):\n What can that cursed Friar be about?",
"CYRANO:\n The devil!. . .If he knows my voice!\n(Letting go with one hand, he pretends to turn an invisible key. Solemnly):\n Cric! Crac!\n Assume thou, Cyrano, to serve the turn,\... |
4,562 | 1254_scene_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Cyrano sits on the rail of the balcony waiting to divert De Guiche, the lutes begin to play a sinister and mournful tune. When De Guiche arrives in mask, Cyrano swings down and lands between him and the door, pretending to be a lunatic who has fallen from the moon. He keeps De Guiche engaged with his chatter abou... | [
"The same. Roxane, Christian, the friar, Ragueneau, lackeys, the duenna.",
"DE GUICHE (to Roxane):\n You?\n(Recognizing Christian, in amazement):\n He?\n(Bowing, with admiration, to Roxane):\n Cunningly contrived!\n(To Cyrano):\n My compliments--Sir Apparatus-maker!\n Your story would arrest at Peter's gate... |
4,518 | 1254_scene_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Cyrano sits on the rail of the balcony waiting to divert De Guiche, the lutes begin to play a sinister and mournful tune. When De Guiche arrives in mask, Cyrano swings down and lands between him and the door, pretending to be a lunatic who has fallen from the moon. He keeps De Guiche engaged with his chatter abou... | [
"Christian, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, Le Bret, the cadets, then Cyrano.",
"LE BRET:\n 'Tis terrible.",
"CARBON:\n Not a morsel left.",
"LE BRET:\n Mordioux!",
"CARBON (making a sign that he should speak lower):\n Curse under your breath. You will awake them.\n(To the cadets):\n Hush! Sleep on.\n(To Le... |
4,524 | 1254_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is set in the evening at a post outside of Arras. It opens with a dialogue between Captain Carbon de Castel-Jaloux and Le Bret in which they indicate that the besieged French troops are miserable, depressed, and hungry. Since the Spanish troops have cut off their supplies, the French have no food. Cyrano seem... | [
"Mother Marguerite, Sister Martha, Sister Claire, other sisters.",
"SISTER MARTHA (to Mother Marguerite):\n Sister Claire glanced in the mirror, once--nay, twice, to see if her coif\nsuited.",
"MOTHER MARGUERITE (to Sister Claire):\n 'Tis not well.",
"SISTER CLAIRE:\n But I saw Sister Martha take a plum\n ... |
4,546 | 1254_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When they rise the next morning, the cadets complain of their hunger and threaten to mutiny. Captain Carbon appeals to Cyrano to come forth from his tent and handle the situation. Cyrano obliges. He tries to joke about the Cadet's hunger by punning on their complaints and offering them The Iliad, which he is reading, a... | [
"The same, all but Cyrano. The day is breaking in a rosy light. The town of\nArras is golden in the horizon. The report of cannon is heard in the\ndistance, followed immediately by the beating of drums far away to the left.\nOther drums are heard much nearer. Sounds of stirring in the camp. Voices of\nofficers ... |
4,547 | 1254_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When they rise the next morning, the cadets complain of their hunger and threaten to mutiny. Captain Carbon appeals to Cyrano to come forth from his tent and handle the situation. Cyrano obliges. He tries to joke about the Cadet's hunger by punning on their complaints and offering them The Iliad, which he is reading, a... | [
"The SAME. Cyrano.",
"CYRANO (appearing from the tent, very calm, with a pen stuck behind his ear\nand a book in his hand):\n What is wrong?\n(Silence. To the first cadet):\n Why drag you your legs so sorrowfully?",
"THE CADET:\n I have something in my heels which weighs them down.",
"CYRANO:\n And what... |
4,520 | 1254_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | De Guiche enters and the cadets ignore him, for they do not want him to see their misery. Carbon and De Guiche greet each other and are pleased to see that each of them is reduced to skin and bone, proof that no one is escaping the suffering and misery. De Guiche, however, complains that Carbon's cadets hold him in con... | [
"The same. De Guiche.",
"DE GUICHE (to Carbon):\n Good-day!\n(They examine each other. Aside, with satisfaction):\n He's green.",
"CARBON (aside):\n He has nothing left but eyes.",
"DE GUICHE (looking at the cadets):\n Here are the rebels! Ay, Sirs, on all sides\n I hear that in your ranks you scoff a... |
4,548 | 1254_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane has passed through the ravages of war in the service of her king, which is love. Using her smile as a passport and telling the gallant Spaniards that she was going to see her lover, she has charmed her way through enemy lines. No one can believe she has risked her life to come here; and everyone wants her to lea... | [
"The same. Roxane.",
"DE GUICHE:\n On the King's service! You?",
"ROXANE:\n Ay,--King Love's! What other king?",
"CYRANO:\n Great God!",
"CHRISTIAN (rushing forward):\n Why have you come?",
"ROXANE:\n This siege--'tis too long!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n But why?. . .",
"ROXANE:\n I will tell you all!"... |
4,549 | 1254_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Carbon introduces Roxane to the Cadets, he asks her to give up her lace handkerchief to serve as the banner of the cadets; she gladly obliges. When one of the men mentions his hunger to her, she tells them that she has brought food and sends them to the carriage. While Ragueneau, serving as the coachman, takes out... | [
"The same, all but De Guiche.",
"CHRISTIAN (entreatingly):\n Roxane!",
"ROXANE:\n No!",
"FIRST CADET (to the others):\n She stays!",
"ALL (hurrying, hustling each other, tidying themselves):\n A comb!--Soap!--My uniform is torn!--A needle!--A ribbon!--Lend your\nmirror!--My cuffs!--Your curling-iron!--A... |
4,550 | 1254_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Carbon introduces Roxane to the Cadets, he asks her to give up her lace handkerchief to serve as the banner of the cadets; she gladly obliges. When one of the men mentions his hunger to her, she tells them that she has brought food and sends them to the carriage. While Ragueneau, serving as the coachman, takes out... | [
"The same. De Guiche.",
"DE GUICHE:\n It smells good here.",
"A CADET (humming):\n Lo! Lo-lo!",
"DE GUICHE (looking at him):\n What is the matter?--You are very red.",
"THE CADET:\n The matter?--Nothing!--'Tis my blood--boiling at the thought of the coming\nbattle!",
"ANOTHER:\n Poum, poum--poum. .... |
4,522 | 1254_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane now reveals to Christian that it was his beautifully written letters that made her risk her life and come to the front to see him. She claims that she was so overwhelmed by feelings for him that she had to come. She also asks Christian's forgiveness for at first loving him only for his looks. Because of the lett... | [
"Roxane, Christian. In the distance cadets coming and going. Carbon and De\nGuiche give orders.",
"ROXANE (running up to Christian):\n Ah, Christian, at last!. . .",
"CHRISTIAN (taking her hands):\n Now tell me why--\n Why, by these fearful paths so perilous--\n Across these ranks of ribald soldiery,\n Y... |
4,551 | 1254_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane now reveals to Christian that it was his beautifully written letters that made her risk her life and come to the front to see him. She claims that she was so overwhelmed by feelings for him that she had to come. She also asks Christian's forgiveness for at first loving him only for his looks. Because of the lett... | [
"Christian, Cyrano. At back Roxane talking to Carbon and some cadets.",
"CHRISTIAN (calling toward Cyrano's tent):\n Cyrano!",
"CYRANO (reappearing, fully armed):\n What? Why so pale?",
"CHRISTIAN:\n She does not love me!",
"CYRANO:\n What?",
"CHRISTIAN:\n 'Tis you she loves!",
"CYRANO:\n No!",
... |
4,552 | 1254_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane now reveals to Christian that it was his beautifully written letters that made her risk her life and come to the front to see him. She claims that she was so overwhelmed by feelings for him that she had to come. She also asks Christian's forgiveness for at first loving him only for his looks. Because of the lett... | [
"Roxane, Cyrano. Then Le Bret, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, Ragueneau,\nDe Guiche, etc.",
"ROXANE:\n Important, how?",
"CYRANO (in despair. to Roxane):\n He's gone! 'Tis naught!--Oh, you know how he sees\n Importance in a trifle!",
"ROXANE (warmly):\n Did he doubt\n Of what I said?--Ah, yes, I ... |
4,553 | 1254_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene abruptly switches to the Convent of the Ladies of the Cross, outside of Paris. As the autumn leaves fall, some of the nuns are seated around the Mother Superior . In the course of their conversation, it is revealed that Cyrano is a regular visitor to the convent. He has come every Saturday for over ten years ... | [
"Roxane; the Duke de Grammont, formerly Count de Guiche. Then Le Bret and\nRagueneau.",
"THE DUKE:\n And you stay here still--ever vainly fair,\n Ever in weeds?",
"ROXANE:\n Ever.",
"THE DUKE:\n Still faithful?",
"ROXANE:\n Still.",
"THE DUKE (after a pause):\n Am I forgiven?",
"ROXANE:\n Ay, si... |
4,554 | 1254_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ragueneau tells Le Bret that Cyrano has had a freak accident. While he was walking outside, a lackey dropped a piece of firewood from an upper window. It hit Cyrano on the head, injuring him seriously. Ragueneau states that after the accident, he had carried Cyrano to his room and found a doctor who would treat him out... | [
"Le Bret, Ragueneau.",
"RAGUENEAU:\n Since you are here, 'tis best she should not know!\n I was going to your friend just now--was but\n A few steps from the house, when I saw him\n Go out. I hurried to him. Saw him turn\n The corner. . .suddenly, from out a window\n Where he was passing--was it chance?. ... |
4,526 | 1254_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ragueneau tells Le Bret that Cyrano has had a freak accident. While he was walking outside, a lackey dropped a piece of firewood from an upper window. It hit Cyrano on the head, injuring him seriously. Ragueneau states that after the accident, he had carried Cyrano to his room and found a doctor who would treat him out... | [
"Roxane alone. Two sisters, for a moment.",
"ROXANE:\n Ah! what a beauty in September's close!\n My sorrow's eased. April's joy dazzled it,\n But autumn wins it with her dying calm.\n(She seats herself at the embroidery frame. Two sisters come out of the\nhouse, and bring a large armchair under the tree):\n... |
4,527 | 1254_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano approaches, supporting himself with a cane. Although his hat conceals his face, it is obvious that he is pale and weak. Roxane, however, is so absorbed in her work on the tapestry that she does not turn to greet Cyrano; instead, she rebukes him for being late. He responds by saying that he had a visitor, whom he... | [
"Roxane, Cyrano and, for a moment, Sister Martha.",
"ROXANE (without turning round):\n What was I saying?. . .\n(She embroiders. Cyrano, very pale, his hat pulled down over his eyes,\nappears. The sister who had announced him retires. He descends the steps\nslowly, with a visible difficulty in holding himself... |
4,528 | 1254_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano approaches, supporting himself with a cane. Although his hat conceals his face, it is obvious that he is pale and weak. Roxane, however, is so absorbed in her work on the tapestry that she does not turn to greet Cyrano; instead, she rebukes him for being late. He responds by saying that he had a visitor, whom he... | [
"The same. Le Bret and Ragueneau.",
"LE BRET:\n What madness! Here? I knew it well!",
"CYRANO (smiling and sitting up):\n What now?",
"LE BRET:\n He has brought his death by coming, Madame.",
"ROXANE:\n God!\n Ah, then! that faintness of a moment since. . .?",
"CYRANO:\n Why, true! It interrupte... |
4,502 | 1254_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens in the year 1640 in the theater at the Hotel de Bourgogne in Paris, France. Preparations are under way for a performance of the play La Clorise. Members of the audience from all social classes, pickpockets, and an orange-girl arrive. Two gentlemen practice fencing. A middle-class man looks disapprovingly... | [
"The public, arriving by degrees. Troopers, burghers, lackeys, pages, a\npickpocket, the doorkeeper, etc., followed by the marquises. Cuigy,\nBrissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc.",
"(A confusion of loud voices is heard outside the door. A trooper enters\nhastily.)",
"THE DOORKEEPER (following hi... |
4,529 | 1254_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ligniere introduces Christian to some Marquises. Christian has just arrived in Paris to join the Guards. The Marquises think that Christian is not very fashionably dressed; they are more interested in the aristocratic and literary ladies who are taking their places in the boxes. Ligniere has come to help Christian iden... | [
"The same. Christian, Ligniere, then Ragueneau and Le Bret.",
"CUIGY:\n Ligniere!",
"BRISSAILLE (laughing):\n Not drunk as yet?",
"LIGNIERE (aside to Christian):\n I may introduce you?\n(Christian nods in assent):\n Baron de Neuvillette.",
"(Bows.)",
"THE AUDIENCE (applauding as the first luster is l... |
4,530 | 1254_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As de Guiche and Valvert walk towards the stage, Christian decides to challenge Valvert to a duel over Roxane. As he reaches into his pocket for his glove to slap Valvert across the face by way of challenge, he encounters the hand of a pickpocket. In exchange for his release, the pickpocket tells Christian that Lignier... | [
"The same, all but Ligniere. De Guiche, Valvert, then Montfleury.",
"A marquis (watching De Guiche, who comes down from Roxane's box, and crosses\nthe pit surrounded by obsequious noblemen, among them the Viscount de\nValvert):\n He pays a fine court, your De Guiche!",
"ANOTHER:\n Faugh!. . .Another Gascon!"... |
4,504 | 1254_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano threatens Montfleury with his sword. Various people in the audience defend Montfleury. Cyrano challenges them all to a duel, but no one dares come forward. He gives Montfleury until the count of three to leave the stage, and Montfleury vanishes. A young man asks Cyrano why he hates Montfleury. Cyrano answers tha... | [
"The same. Cyrano, then Bellerose, Jodelet.",
"MONTFLEURY (to the marquises):\n Come to my help, my lords!",
"A MARQUIS (carelessly):\n Go on! Go on!",
"CYRANO:\n Fat man, take warning! If you go on, I\n Shall feel myself constrained to cuff your face!",
"THE MARQUIS:\n Have done!",
"CYRANO:\n An... |
4,531 | 1254_act_1,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Le Bret warns Cyrano that he is making enemies. He asks Cyrano to tell him the real reason he hates Montfleury. Cyrano says that he once caught Montfleury looking flirtatiously at the woman Cyrano loves. Cyrano is certain that no one could love a man with a nose like his. From Cyrano's description of the woman, Le Bret... | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret.",
"CYRANO (to Le Bret):\n Now talk--I listen.\n(He stands at the buffet, and placing before him first the macaroon):\n Dinner!. . .\n(then the grapes):\n Dessert!. . .\n(then the glass of water):\n Wine!. . .\n(he seats himself):\n So! And now to table!\n Ah! I was hungry, friend, nay, r... |
4,532 | 1254_act_1,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane's Duenna brings a message from Roxane asking Cyrano to meet her privately. They arrange a meeting at Ragueneau's at seven o'clock the next morning | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret, the duenna.",
"THE DUENNA (with a low bow):\n I was bid ask you where a certain lady\n Could see her valiant cousin--but in secret.",
"CYRANO (overwhelmed):\n See me?",
"THE DUENNA (courtesying):\n Ay, Sir! She has somewhat to tell.",
"CYRANO:\n Somewhat?. . .",
"THE DUENNA (still ... |
4,533 | 1254_act_1,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano is ecstatically happy that Roxane wants to meet him. Ligniere arrives. He has heard about the hundred men waiting to ambush him and asks Cyrano whether, since he cannot go home, he can stay with him. Cyrano tells Ligniere that he can sleep at his own home tonight; he will fight the hundred men and see Ligniere s... | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret. Then actors, actresses, Cuigy, Brissaille, Ligniere, the\nporter, the violinists.",
"CYRANO (falling into Le Bret's arms):\n A rendezvous. . .from her!. . .",
"LE BRET:\n You're sad no more!",
"CYRANO:\n Ah! Let the world go burn! She knows I live!",
"LE BRET:\n Now you'll be calm, ... |
4,534 | 1254_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Ragueneau's shop, Ragueneau is sitting at a table writing poetry while his assistants are cooking. One assistant has made a pastry lyre , which delights Ragueneau. Ragueneau's wife Lise comes in, furious that he has been giving away his wares to poets in return for poems. She brings some paper bags that she has made... | [
"Ragueneau, pastry-cooks, then Lise. Ragueneau is writing, with an inspired\nair, at a small table, and counting on his fingers.",
"FIRST PASTRY-COOK (bringing in an elaborate fancy dish):\n Fruits in nougat!",
"SECOND PASTRY-COOK (bringing another dish):\n Custard!",
"THIRD PASTRY-COOK (bringing a roast, ... |
4,535 | 1254_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some children come into the shop to buy three pies. Ragueneau cannot bear to lose the poems by using them as wrapping and bribes the children with three free pies to accept them unwrapped | [
"The same. Two children, who have just trotted into the shop.",
"RAGUENEAU:\n What would you, little ones?",
"FIRST CHILD:\n Three pies.",
"RAGUENEAU (serving them):\n See, hot and well browned.",
"SECOND CHILD:\n If it please you, Sir, will you wrap them up for us?",
"RAGUENEAU (aside, distressed):\... |
4,536 | 1254_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano arrives at Ragueneau's. Ragueneau congratulates Cyrano on his "duel in verse" at the theater. Cyrano asks Ragueneau to leave him alone with Roxane when she arrives, but Ragueneau says that he cannot, as his poet friends are arriving shortly for their breakfast. A Musketeer comes in, and Ragueneau tells Cyrano th... | [
"Ragueneau, Lise, Cyrano, then the musketeer.",
"CYRANO:\n What's o'clock?",
"RAGUENEAU (bowing low):\n Six o'clock.",
"CYRANO (with emotion):\n In one hour's time!",
"(He paces up and down the shop.)",
"RAGUENEAU (following him):\n Bravo! I saw. . .",
"CYRANO:\n Well, what saw you, then?",
"RAG... |
4,537 | 1254_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Ragueneau's shop, Cyrano is writing his letter to Roxane. The letter is eloquent and full of passion. The poets arrive for their breakfast. They are talking admiringly of an unknown swordsman who successfully defeated a huge gang of men at the Porte de Nesle. Eight of the men are dead. Cyrano denies all knowledge of... | [
"Ragueneau, Lise, the musketeer. Cyrano at the little table writing. The\npoets, dressed in black, their stockings ungartered, and covered with mud.",
"LISE (entering, to Ragueneau):\n Here they come, your mud-bespattered friends!",
"FIRST POET (entering, to Ragueneau):\n Brother in art!. . .",
"SECOND PO... |
4,538 | 1254_act_2,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane and her Duenna arrive, wearing masks. Cyrano bribes the Duenna with cream buns to wait outside while he talks to Roxane on her own | [
"Cyrano, Roxane, the duenna.",
"CYRANO:\n Ah! if I see but the faint glimmer of hope, then I draw out my letter!\n(Roxane, masked, followed by the duenna, appears at the glass pane of the\ndoor. He opens quickly):\n Enter!. . .\n(Walking up to the duenna):\n Two words with you, Duenna.",
"THE DUENNA:\n Fou... |
4,539 | 1254_act_2,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano begins to address Roxane as a lover grateful to be acknowledged, but Roxane interrupts him to explain that the first purpose of her visit is to thank him for puncturing the pride of Valvert by fighting him in the theater. She reminisces with Cyrano about the happy times they spent together as children. She tends... | [
"Cyrano, Roxane.",
"CYRANO:\n Blessed be the moment when you condescend--\n Remembering that humbly I exist--\n To come to meet me, and to say. . .to tell?. . .",
"ROXANE (who has unmasked):\n To thank you first of all. That dandy count,\n Whom you checkmated in brave sword-play\n Last night,. . .he is t... |
4,540 | 1254_act_2,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ragueneau, the poets, and the captain of the Guards, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, enter with a crowd of people. Carbon tells Cyrano that everyone knows it was Cyrano who fought the hundred men, and they have come to congratulate him. Cyrano draws back, unwilling to be the center of attention. De Guiche arrives with a messa... | [
"Cyrano, Ragueneau, poets, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, a crowd, then\nDe Guiche.",
"RAGUENEAU:\n Can we come in?",
"CYRANO (without stirring):\n Yes. . .",
"(Ragueneau signs to his friends, and they come in. At the same time, by door\nat back, enters Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, in Captain's uniform. ... |
4,541 | 1254_act_2,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Le Bret scolds Cyrano for his pride in refusing de Guiche's patronage. Cyrano replies that he wants to remain free and to be the sole owner of his work. He does not intend to live as a parasite. Le Bret counters that Cyrano makes enemies wherever he goes. Cyrano replies that he has no interest in making friends with un... | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, who are eating and drinking at the tables right\nand left.",
"CYRANO (bowing mockingly to those who go out without daring to salute him):\n Gentlemen. . .Gentlemen. . .",
"LE BRET (coming back, despairingly):\n Here's a fine coil!",
"CYRANO:\n Oh! scold away!",
"LE BRET:\n ... |
4,542 | 1254_act_2,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christian enters with some of the cadets. None of them sit with him. They taunt him for being a northerner, and warn him not to mention Cyrano's nose, as Cyrano may kill him. Christian asks Carbon what a northerner should do when southerners boast too much. Carbon answers that he should show them that a northerner can ... | [
"Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, Christian de Neuvillette.",
"A CADET (seated at a table, glass in hand):\n Cyrano!\n(Cyrano turns round):\n The story!",
"CYRANO:\n In its time!",
"(He goes up on Le Bret's arm. They talk in low voices.)",
"THE CADET (rising and coming down):\n The story of the fray! 'Twi... |
4,543 | 1254_act_2,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano commends Christian's bravery and, to Christian's astonishment, embraces him. Cyrano tells Christian that he is Roxane's cousin and that she loves him. Christian apologizes to Cyrano for insulting him. Christian fears that Roxane will lose interest in him as soon as he speaks to her, as he is so stupid. Cyrano pr... | [
"Cyrano, Christian.",
"CYRANO:\n Embrace me now!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Sir. . .",
"CYRANO:\n You are brave.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Oh! but. . .",
"CYRANO:\n Nay, I insist.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Pray tell me. . .",
"CYRANO:\n Come, embrace! I am her brother.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Whose brother?",
"CYRANO:\n Hers ... |
4,512 | 1254_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ragueneau is sitting outside Roxane's house, telling her Duenna that his wife has just left him for the Musketeer, taking what little money they had. Ragueneau tried to hang himself, but Cyrano found him, cut him down, and sent him to Roxane to be her steward. The Duenna calls Roxane; they are going to hear a talk abou... | [
"Ragueneau, the duenna. Then Roxane, Cyrano, and two pages.",
"RAGUENEAU:\n --And then, off she went, with a musketeer! Deserted and ruined too, I\nwould make an end of all, and so hanged myself. My last breath was drawn:--\nthen in comes Monsieur de Bergerac! He cuts me down, and begs his cousin to\ntake me... |
4,544 | 1254_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | De Guiche tells Roxane that he has come to say goodbye. He is leaving tonight to go to fight in the war at the northern French town of Arras, which in 1640 was occupied by the Spanish. De Guiche is disappointed that Roxane does not appear to care that he is leaving. He reveals that he is the officer in command of the G... | [
"Roxane, De Guiche, the duenna standing a little way off.",
"ROXANE (courtesying to De Guiche):\n I was going out.",
"DE GUICHE:\n I come to take my leave.",
"ROXANE:\n Whither go you?",
"DE GUICHE:\n To the war.",
"ROXANE:\n Ah!",
"DE GUICHE:\n Ay, to-night.",
"ROXANE:\n Oh!",
"DE GUICHE:\n ... |
4,545 | 1254_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane and the Duenna prepare to go to the talk on love at the house opposite. She tells Cyrano that if Christian comes to visit her, Cyrano should ask him to wait. She reveals that she plans to ask Christian to improvise around the subject of love, but asks Cyrano not to pass this on to Christian, as she believes he w... | [
"Roxane, The duenna, Cyrano.",
"ROXANE:\n We are going to Clomire's house.\n(She points to the door opposite):\n Alcandre and Lysimon are to discourse!",
"THE DUENNA (putting her little finger in her ear):\n Yes! But my little finger tells me we shall miss them.",
"CYRANO:\n 'Twere a pity to miss such ap... |
4,514 | 1254_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano tries to persuade Christian to learn some lines that he has written, but Christian refuses. He is confident that Roxane loves him now, and he wants to speak to her in his own words. | [
"Cyrano, Christian.",
"CYRANO:\n I know all that is needful. Here's occasion\n For you to deck yourself with glory. Come,\n Lose no time; put away those sulky looks,\n Come to your house with me, I'll teach you. . .",
"CHRISTIAN:\n No!",
"CYRANO:\n Why?",
"CHRISTIAN:\n I will wait for Roxane here."... |
4,555 | 1254_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane and the Duenna return home. Roxane sits outside her house with Christian, and she asks him to talk to her about love. All he can say is "I love you. Roxane expects him to elaborate, but he cannot, except to ask to kiss her neck. She is angry, goes into her house, and shuts the door on Christian. Cyrano appears a... | [
"Christian, Roxane, the duenna.",
"ROXANE (coming out of Clomire's house, with a company of friends, whom she\nleaves. Bows and good-byes):\n Barthenoide!--Alcandre!--Gremione!--",
"THE DUENNA (bitterly disappointed):\n We've missed the speech upon the Tender Passion!",
"(Goes into Roxane's house.)",
"RO... |
4,556 | 1254_act_3,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christian begs Cyrano to help him get Roxane back. A light appears in the balcony window, so the men know that she is in her room. Cyrano hides under the balcony and makes Christian stand in front of it. Cyrano throws pebbles at Roxane's window to get her to come out | [
"Christian, Cyrano, two pages.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Come to my aid!",
"CYRANO:\n Not I!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n But I shall die,\n Unless at once I win back her fair favor.",
"CYRANO:\n And how can I, at once, i' th' devil's name,\n Lesson you in. . .",
"CHRISTIAN (seizing his arm):\n Oh, she is there!",
"(Th... |
4,557 | 1254_act_3,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane opens her window and tells Christian to go away as he has nothing to say. She is on the point of closing her window when Cyrano prompts Christian with eloquent speeches, which he delivers to Roxane. She changes her mind and decides to listen to her suitor. She asks Christian why his speech is full of delays. Cyr... | [
"Cyrano, Christian, a capuchin friar.",
"CYRANO (to the friar):\n What do you, playing at Diogenes?",
"THE FRIAR:\n I seek the house of Madame. . .",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Oh! plague take him!",
"THE FRIAR:\n Madeleine Robin. . .",
"CHRISTIAN:\n What would he?. . .",
"CYRANO (pointing to a street at the ba... |
4,558 | 1254_act_3,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Capuchin monk enters, looking for Roxane's house. Cyrano, not wanting to be disturbed, sends him in the opposite direction | [
"Cyrano, Christian.",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Oh! win for me that kiss. . .",
"CYRANO:\n No!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n Soon or late!. . .",
"CYRANO:\n 'Tis true! The moment of intoxication--\n Of madness,--when your mouths are sure to meet\n Thanks to your fair mustache--and her rose lips!\n(To himself):\n I'd fainer i... |
4,559 | 1254_act_3,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christian tells Cyrano that he must have a kiss from Roxane. Cyrano reluctantly agrees | [
"Cyrano, Christian, Roxane.",
"ROXANE (coming out on the balcony):\n Still there?\n We spoke of a. . .",
"CYRANO:\n A kiss! The word is sweet.\n I see not why your lip should shrink from it;\n If the word burns it,--what would the kiss do?\n Oh! let it not your bashfulness affright;\n Have you not, all ... |
4,560 | 1254_act_3,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane reappears on her balcony. Cyrano charms her into agreeing to the kiss. He urges Christian to climb up and kiss Roxane. Christian hesitates, saying, "It feels wrong. But Cyrano urges Christian more insistently, and Christian climbs up onto the balcony and kisses Roxane. Cyrano takes comfort in the thought that hi... | [
"Cyrano, Christian, Roxane, the friar, Ragueneau.",
"THE FRIAR:\n 'Tis here,--I'm sure of it--Madame Madeleine Robin.",
"CYRANO:\n Why, you said Ro-LIN.",
"THE FRIAR:\n No, not I.\n B,I,N,BIN!",
"ROXANE (appearing on the threshold, followed by Ragueneau, who carries a\nlantern, and Christian):\n What i... |
4,561 | 1254_act_3,_scene_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The monk reappears, having discovered that Roxane does live here. He brings a letter to Roxane from de Guiche. In the letter, de Guiche says that he has not gone to the war but has remained behind, hiding in a nearby convent. He intends to visit Roxane tonight. Pretending to read the letter aloud, Roxane says that de G... | [
"Cyrano, De Guiche.",
"DE GUICHE (who enters, masked, feeling his way in the dark):\n What can that cursed Friar be about?",
"CYRANO:\n The devil!. . .If he knows my voice!\n(Letting go with one hand, he pretends to turn an invisible key. Solemnly):\n Cric! Crac!\n Assume thou, Cyrano, to serve the turn,\... |
4,562 | 1254_act_3,_scene_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano pulls his hat down over his eyes and waits on the balcony for de Guiche | [
"The same. Roxane, Christian, the friar, Ragueneau, lackeys, the duenna.",
"DE GUICHE (to Roxane):\n You?\n(Recognizing Christian, in amazement):\n He?\n(Bowing, with admiration, to Roxane):\n Cunningly contrived!\n(To Cyrano):\n My compliments--Sir Apparatus-maker!\n Your story would arrest at Peter's gate... |
4,518 | 1254_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts to the encampment of Carbon's regiment at the siege of Arras, just before dawn. Christian is asleep. Le Bret and Carbon are keeping watch. They look thin, and Carbon remarks to Le Bret that they have run out of food. The sound of gunfire is heard. Cyrano arrives. Every morning, he crosses the enemy lin... | [
"Christian, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, Le Bret, the cadets, then Cyrano.",
"LE BRET:\n 'Tis terrible.",
"CARBON:\n Not a morsel left.",
"LE BRET:\n Mordioux!",
"CARBON (making a sign that he should speak lower):\n Curse under your breath. You will awake them.\n(To the cadets):\n Hush! Sleep on.\n(To Le... |
4,546 | 1254_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Reveille sounds. The Guards wake up and immediately start complaining about how hungry they are. Carbon asks Cyrano to come of the tent and entertain the men | [
"The same, all but Cyrano. The day is breaking in a rosy light. The town of\nArras is golden in the horizon. The report of cannon is heard in the\ndistance, followed immediately by the beating of drums far away to the left.\nOther drums are heard much nearer. Sounds of stirring in the camp. Voices of\nofficers ... |
4,547 | 1254_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano comes out of the tent and restores the men's morale with his witty banter. He gets a piper to play an old Gascon song, which reminds the men of their homeland. There is a murmur of disapproval as de Guiche is seen approaching. Cyrano asks the men to start a game of cards, so that de Guiche will not see them suff... | [
"The SAME. Cyrano.",
"CYRANO (appearing from the tent, very calm, with a pen stuck behind his ear\nand a book in his hand):\n What is wrong?\n(Silence. To the first cadet):\n Why drag you your legs so sorrowfully?",
"THE CADET:\n I have something in my heels which weighs them down.",
"CYRANO:\n And what... |
4,520 | 1254_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | De Guiche arrives and boasts about his courage on the battlefield the previous day. Cyrano asks him about his white plume of feathers. De Guiche explains that he threw away his white plume to confuse the Spaniards, and led his troops in a charge that broke through the enemy line. A silence falls upon the Guards. Cyrano... | [
"The same. De Guiche.",
"DE GUICHE (to Carbon):\n Good-day!\n(They examine each other. Aside, with satisfaction):\n He's green.",
"CARBON (aside):\n He has nothing left but eyes.",
"DE GUICHE (looking at the cadets):\n Here are the rebels! Ay, Sirs, on all sides\n I hear that in your ranks you scoff a... |
4,548 | 1254_act_4,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane says she came to the battlefield because she got fed up with writing. She crossed the Spanish lines and was shot at. When she was stopped by Spaniards, she told them she was going to see her lover and they let her pass. De Guiche, Christian, and Cyrano all tell her that she must leave immediately, as they will s... | [
"The same. Roxane.",
"DE GUICHE:\n On the King's service! You?",
"ROXANE:\n Ay,--King Love's! What other king?",
"CYRANO:\n Great God!",
"CHRISTIAN (rushing forward):\n Why have you come?",
"ROXANE:\n This siege--'tis too long!",
"CHRISTIAN:\n But why?. . .",
"ROXANE:\n I will tell you all!"... |
4,549 | 1254_act_4,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carbon presents the Guards to Roxane, and asks her to give them her handkerchief to use as a banner, which she does. One of the men complains of hunger. To their delight, Roxane produces Ragueneau from her carriage, along with food for everyone. Roxane busies herself with ensuring that all the men are served with food ... | [
"The same, all but De Guiche.",
"CHRISTIAN (entreatingly):\n Roxane!",
"ROXANE:\n No!",
"FIRST CADET (to the others):\n She stays!",
"ALL (hurrying, hustling each other, tidying themselves):\n A comb!--Soap!--My uniform is torn!--A needle!--A ribbon!--Lend your\nmirror!--My cuffs!--Your curling-iron!--A... |
4,550 | 1254_act_4,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | De Guiche returns and again asks Roxane to leave. When she refuses, he resolves to stay and fight too. The men are impressed by his courage, wondering if de Guiche too is a Gascon, and offer him some food. He refuses to eat their left-overs, and betrays a hint of a Gascon accent, making them all the more certain that h... | [
"The same. De Guiche.",
"DE GUICHE:\n It smells good here.",
"A CADET (humming):\n Lo! Lo-lo!",
"DE GUICHE (looking at him):\n What is the matter?--You are very red.",
"THE CADET:\n The matter?--Nothing!--'Tis my blood--boiling at the thought of the coming\nbattle!",
"ANOTHER:\n Poum, poum--poum. .... |
4,522 | 1254_act_4,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christian asks Roxane why she risked her life to come to the battlefield. She tells him that it was because of his wonderful letters. At first, she says, she loved him for his beauty, but then she was a foolish, shallow girl. Now, his beauty no longer matters, and she loves the soul that shone through in his letters. S... | [
"Roxane, Christian. In the distance cadets coming and going. Carbon and De\nGuiche give orders.",
"ROXANE (running up to Christian):\n Ah, Christian, at last!. . .",
"CHRISTIAN (taking her hands):\n Now tell me why--\n Why, by these fearful paths so perilous--\n Across these ranks of ribald soldiery,\n Y... |
4,551 | 1254_act_4,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christian tells Cyrano that Roxane no longer loves him; it is Cyrano whom she loves. Christian also says it is plain that Cyrano returns her love. Cyrano admits that this is so. Christian tells Cyrano to tell her their secret. Cyrano says he cannot, as he is so ugly. Christian points out that Roxane said she would love... | [
"Christian, Cyrano. At back Roxane talking to Carbon and some cadets.",
"CHRISTIAN (calling toward Cyrano's tent):\n Cyrano!",
"CYRANO (reappearing, fully armed):\n What? Why so pale?",
"CHRISTIAN:\n She does not love me!",
"CYRANO:\n What?",
"CHRISTIAN:\n 'Tis you she loves!",
"CYRANO:\n No!",
... |
4,552 | 1254_act_4,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano and Roxane discuss her conversation with Christian. Musket fire is heard offstage. Cyrano asks Roxane if it is true that she would love him even if he were ugly, or even disfigured. She confirms that she would. Cyrano is ecstatic, and is on the brink of revealing his secret to Roxane. Before he can speak, howeve... | [
"Roxane, Cyrano. Then Le Bret, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, Ragueneau,\nDe Guiche, etc.",
"ROXANE:\n Important, how?",
"CYRANO (in despair. to Roxane):\n He's gone! 'Tis naught!--Oh, you know how he sees\n Importance in a trifle!",
"ROXANE (warmly):\n Did he doubt\n Of what I said?--Ah, yes, I ... |
4,524 | 1254_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is fifteen years later, in 1655. The action opens in the garden of the convent into which Roxane has retired. The nuns are talking about Cyrano, who they say has visited Roxane regularly for the fourteen years since she came to live there. He is the only person who makes her smile. Mother Margaret, the head of the c... | [
"Mother Marguerite, Sister Martha, Sister Claire, other sisters.",
"SISTER MARTHA (to Mother Marguerite):\n Sister Claire glanced in the mirror, once--nay, twice, to see if her coif\nsuited.",
"MOTHER MARGUERITE (to Sister Claire):\n 'Tis not well.",
"SISTER CLAIRE:\n But I saw Sister Martha take a plum\n ... |
4,553 | 1254_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane enters with de Guiche, who is visiting her. He is now the Duc de Grammont and one of the most powerful men in France. De Guiche asks her whether she intends to waste her beauty living in the convent forever, guarding Christian's memory. She says that she does, and that she still keeps his last letter next to her... | [
"Roxane; the Duke de Grammont, formerly Count de Guiche. Then Le Bret and\nRagueneau.",
"THE DUKE:\n And you stay here still--ever vainly fair,\n Ever in weeds?",
"ROXANE:\n Ever.",
"THE DUKE:\n Still faithful?",
"ROXANE:\n Still.",
"THE DUKE (after a pause):\n Am I forgiven?",
"ROXANE:\n Ay, si... |
4,554 | 1254_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane leaves to talk to de Guiche. Ragueneau tells Le Bret that Cyrano has been seriously injured and is unconscious. As he walked under a window, a man dropped a log of wood on his head. Le Bret is sure that it is no accident. A doctor has said that if Cyrano gets up, he will die | [
"Le Bret, Ragueneau.",
"RAGUENEAU:\n Since you are here, 'tis best she should not know!\n I was going to your friend just now--was but\n A few steps from the house, when I saw him\n Go out. I hurried to him. Saw him turn\n The corner. . .suddenly, from out a window\n Where he was passing--was it chance?. ... |
4,526 | 1254_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Roxane sits doing her needlework and wonders why Cyrano is late for his usual visit | [
"Roxane alone. Two sisters, for a moment.",
"ROXANE:\n Ah! what a beauty in September's close!\n My sorrow's eased. April's joy dazzled it,\n But autumn wins it with her dying calm.\n(She seats herself at the embroidery frame. Two sisters come out of the\nhouse, and bring a large armchair under the tree):\n... |
4,527 | 1254_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cyrano enters, looking pale and walking with difficulty. He warns her that he may have to leave before evening. He teases Sister Martha and surprises her by saying that she can pray for him this evening. As he begins to tell Roxane the latest gossip, he is obviously struggling to continue. He almost faints, but tells R... | [
"Roxane, Cyrano and, for a moment, Sister Martha.",
"ROXANE (without turning round):\n What was I saying?. . .\n(She embroiders. Cyrano, very pale, his hat pulled down over his eyes,\nappears. The sister who had announced him retires. He descends the steps\nslowly, with a visible difficulty in holding himself... |
4,528 | 1254_act_5,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Le Bret and Ragueneau rush in, crying that Cyrano's coming here will kill him. Cyrano tells Roxane his last piece of news: "Today. Monsieur de Bergerac was murdered. He takes off his hat and reveals his bandaged head. Roxane is distraught. Cyrano says he always expected to die on the point of a hero's sword, but instea... | [
"The same. Le Bret and Ragueneau.",
"LE BRET:\n What madness! Here? I knew it well!",
"CYRANO (smiling and sitting up):\n What now?",
"LE BRET:\n He has brought his death by coming, Madame.",
"ROXANE:\n God!\n Ah, then! that faintness of a moment since. . .?",
"CYRANO:\n Why, true! It interrupte... |
4,563 | 6053_volume_1,_letter_1-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel is comprised of letters in three volumes. The heading to each letter provides its sender and recipient, as well as its date. While this summary gives synopsis of the novel's plot, it should be understood that all information is from the perspective of whoever is writing the current letter. The first few lette... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER I LADY HOWARD TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS",
"Howard Grove, Kent.",
"CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than\na necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed it is\nsometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver\nof evil tidings is... |
4,564 | 6053_volume_1,_letter_15-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Villars writes to Evelina that he is distressed by her situation. He counsels her to avoid becoming like Madame Duval, but also to treat her grandmother with respect and deference. He feels uneasy about her experience with London life, and worries how the change back to remote Berry Hill will suit Evelina. Evelina ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER XV MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA",
"Berry Hill, April 16.",
"IN the belief and hope that my Evelina would, ere now, have bid adieu\nto London, I had intended to have deferred writing, till I heard\nof her return to Howard Grove; but the letter I have this moment\nreceived, with intelligence of Mada... |
4,565 | 6053_volume_1,_letter_22-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evelina continues to write to Mr. Villars of her adventures. Mrs. Mirvan spoke with Evelina, telling her how Lord Orville had reprimanded Mr. Lovel for his behavior at the opera. Evelina feels relieved to learn this, and praises the "quiet courage" of Lord Orville. At a dinner to which she was invited, Madame Duval sco... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER XXII EVELINA IN CONTINUATION",
"Monday Morning, April 18.",
"MRS. MIRVAN has just communicated to me an anecdote concerning Lord\nOrville, which has much surprised, half pleased, and half pained me.",
"While they were sitting together during the opera, he told her that\nhe had been greatly ... |
4,566 | 6053_volume_2,_letter_1-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evelina continues to write to Mr. Villars of her time at Howard Grove. Howard Grove was enlivened by a visit from Sir Clement Willoughby. The Captain was extremely excited to see his friend, and hoped Sir Clement would help him annoy the "old French-woman." Evelina, however, was dismayed to see their plans to do so put... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER XXXII EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS",
"Howard Grove, Kent, May 10.",
"OUR house has been enlivened to-day by the arrival of a London visitor;\nand the necessity I have been under of concealing the uneasiness of\nmy mind, has made me exert myself so effectually, that I even think\nit is real... |
4,567 | 6053_volume_2,_letter_12-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evelina continues her letters to Mr. Villars. Mr. Smith called upon Evelina to invite her to the Hampstead Assembly, but she refused him. Despite his surprise and persistence, she would not change her mind. Finally, he appealed to Madame Duval through flattery, and succeeded in winning that lady's favor. The next day, ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER XLIII EVELINA IN CONTINUATION",
"June 10th\nTHIS morning Mr. Smith called,\non purpose, he said, to offer me a ticket for the next Hampstead\nassembly. I thanked him, but desired to be excused accepting it: he\nwould not, however, be denied, nor answered; and, in a manner both\nvehement and fre... |
4,568 | 6053_volume_2,_letter_20-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evelina writes to Mr. Villars, including in her correspondence a letter from Mr. Macartney in which he relates to her his sad story. He writes that he had grown up with his mother in Scotland, and never knew his father, whom he was told had died. He had one particularly close friend, who used his fortune to leave Scotl... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER LI. EVELINA IN CONTINUATION.",
"I HAVE just received a most affecting letter from Mr. Macartney. I\nwill inclose it, my dear Sir, for your perusal. More than ever have\nI cause to rejoice that I was able to assist him. Mr. Macartney to\nMiss Anville.",
"Madam,",
"IMPRESSED with deepest, the... |
4,569 | 6053_volume_3,_letter_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evelina writes to Mr. Villars. Mrs. Selwyn and Evelina walked together once at Bristol, but were bothered by bold young men addressing Evelina. She tried to reject them, but they were persistent. Mrs. Selwyn, in her bold and commanding manner, offered retorts to their behavior. They later encountered Lord Merton - the ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER LXII. EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. \nBristol Hotwells, Sept. 12th.",
"THE first fortnight that I passed here was so quiet, so serene, that\nit gave me reason to expect a settled calm during my stay; but if I\nmay now judge of the time to come, by the present state of my mind,\nthe calm wil... |
4,570 | 6053_volume_3,_letter_6-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Villars writes to Evelina and confesses his concern that she is too innocent to realize what is happening: Lord Orville is in love with her. Worse, she is attracted to him but does not realize it. As she has not been able to transcend her infatuation, he encourages her to quit him, since "his sight is baneful to yo... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n LETTER LXVII. MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA. \nBerry Hill, Sept. 28th.",
"DEAD to the world, and equally insensible to its pleasures or its\npains, I long since bad adieu to all joy, and defiance to all sorrow,\nbut what should spring from my Evelina,-sole source, to me, of all\nearthly felicity. How stran... |
4,571 | 6053_volume_3,_letter_16-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evelina continues to write to Mr. Villars. In the morning during breakfast, Lord Orville asked Evelina if he could privately speak with her later, about the rude letter she had received. Later that day, Evelina was alone when Sir Clement Willoughby came into the room unexpectedly. When he saw that letter in her hand, h... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nLETTER LXXVII. EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. \n Clifton, Oct. 7th.",
"YOU will see, my dear Sir, that I was mistaken in supposing I should\nwrite no more from this place, where my residence now seems more\nuncertain than ever.",
"This morning, during breakfast, Lord Orville took an opportunity to\nbeg me... |
4,572 | 1134_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene One is a short conversation between Archidamus, a Bohemian courtier, and Camillo, a Sicilian courtier and trusted friend of Leontes, King of Sicilia. Archidamus praises the generous hospitality he has been treated to in Sicilia, apologizing for any inadequacies Camillo might experience should he travel to Bohemia... | [
"Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS",
"ARCHIDAMUS. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on\nthe\n like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall\nsee,\n as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your\n Sicilia. CAMILLO. I think this co... |
4,573 | 1134_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hermione sits with her ladies-in-waiting and Mamillius. The child is mischievous and charming, delighting his mother and her ladies with irreverent humor. Leontes enters with Antigonus and various unnamed lords. They are telling him about the flight of Camillo and Polixenes, and their news makes Leontes feel certain th... | [
"Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and LADIES",
"HERMIONE. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me, 'Tis past enduring. FIRST LADY. Come, my gracious lord, Shall I be your playfellow? MAMILLIUS. No, I'll none of you. FIRST LADY. Why, my sweet lord? MAMILLIUS. You'll kiss me hard, and s... |
4,574 | 1134_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleomenes and Dion, the courtiers dispatched by Leontes to the oracle at Delphi, speak with wonder about the ceremony they witnessed at the shrine. They hope that the oracle's judgment will help Queen Hermione. Scene ii: The trial of Hermione. With dignity and restraint, Hermione defends her chastity and condemns the i... | [
"Sicilia. On the road to the Capital",
"Enter CLEOMENES and DION",
"CLEOMENES. The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,\n Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing\n The common praise it bears. DION. I shall report,\n For most it caught me, the celestial habits-\n Methinks I so should term the... |
4,575 | 1134_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Father Time, the chorus of this play, tells the audience that sixteen years have passed since the end of Act 3. We leave behind Leontes, grieving in Sicilia, and come to Bohemia. Perdita, now a young woman, grows in grace and beauty. Father Time asks us also to remember that Polixenes has a son, Florizell, who is now a... | [
"Enter TIME, the CHORUS",
"TIME. I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror\n Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,\n Now take upon me, in the name of Time,\n To use my wings. Impute it not a crime\n To me or my swift passage that I slide\n O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth u... |
4,576 | 1134_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The courtiers comfort Leontes, who has never forgiven himself for the deaths of Mamillius and Hermione. Paulina's words to the king include a dose of harsh honesty. Though the other courtiers want him to remarry, Paulina urges him not to do it. She reminds him of Apollo's prophecy, which proclaimed that Leontes would h... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.\nSicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and OTHERS",
"CLEOMENES. Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd\n A saint-like sorrow. No fault could you make\n Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down\n More penitence than done trespass. At the... |
4,577 | 1134_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Archidamus, a lord of Bohemia, tells Camillo, a lord of Sicilia, that should he ever visit Bohemia that he would find great differences between the two countries. Camillo responds that he thinks his king plans an exchange visit during the coming summer. Archidamus predicts that although their entertainments cannot matc... | [
"Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS",
"ARCHIDAMUS. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on\nthe\n like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall\nsee,\n as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your\n Sicilia. CAMILLO. I think this co... |
4,578 | 1134_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leontes, his wife Hermione, Polixenes, Camillo, and a bevy of lords stroll quietly on stage. Polixenes announces that after nine months away from his royal duties, he must return home tomorrow. Leontes urges Polixenes to stay at least another week, but Polixenes insists that he must leave the following day to tend to h... | [
"Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, CAMILLO, and\nATTENDANTS",
"POLIXENES. Nine changes of the wat'ry star hath been The shepherd's note since we have left our throne Without a burden. Time as long again Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks; And yet we sh... |
4,579 | 1134_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Hermione and Mamillius enter together, Hermione immediately turns to her ladies-in-waiting and asks them to take the boy. Mamillius immediately engages the ladies with his precocious wit. One lady teases Mamillius about how much he will want their company after the new prince is born. The second lady observes ... | [
"Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and LADIES",
"HERMIONE. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me, 'Tis past enduring. FIRST LADY. Come, my gracious lord, Shall I be your playfellow? MAMILLIUS. No, I'll none of you. FIRST LADY. Why, my sweet lord? MAMILLIUS. You'll kiss me hard, and s... |
4,580 | 1134_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paulina and her attendants appear at the prison to request a visit with Hermione. The gaoler replies that he has orders not to allow visitors. Paulina then requests a chance to speak to one of the queen's ladies, Emilia if possible. The gaoler agrees to bring Emilia to Paulina if she dismisses her attendants, and if he... | [
"Sicilia. A prison",
"Enter PAULINA, a GENTLEMAN, and ATTENDANTS",
"PAULINA. The keeper of the prison- call to him;\n Let him have knowledge who I am. Exit GENTLEMAN\n Good lady!\n No court in Europe is too good for thee;\n What dost thou then in prison?",
"Re-enter GENTLEMAN with the... |
4,581 | 1134_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leontes enters with a group of lords and servants -- captives, really, who must listen to his ravings. He complains, first, that his inability to punish the traitors is causing him to suffer from insomnia. The "harlot king" -- Polixenes -- is out of reach, but at least Hermione is under control; now, if he could perman... | [
"Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES",
"Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, LORDS, and SERVANTS",
"LEONTES. Nor night nor day no rest! It is but weakness To bear the matter thus- mere weakness. If The cause were not in being- part o' th' cause, She, th' adultress; for the harlot king Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank... |
4,582 | 1134_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Walking through the streets of a Sicilian town, Cleomenes and Dion exchange their impressions of the general appearance and, especially, the religious atmosphere that they observed on the "island of Delphos ." Cleomenes remembers vividly the thundering voice of the oracle; Dion says that he hopes that the trip will pro... | [
"Sicilia. On the road to the Capital",
"Enter CLEOMENES and DION",
"CLEOMENES. The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,\n Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing\n The common praise it bears. DION. I shall report,\n For most it caught me, the celestial habits-\n Methinks I so should term the... |
4,583 | 1134_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leontes expresses his grief to the lords and officers who enter the scene of the trial. Describing the accused Hermione as the daughter of a king, his wife, and also as someone who is "too much beloved," he urges the beginning of an open trial which can both clear him of all charges of tyranny and can determine Hermion... | [
"Sicilia. A court of justice",
"Enter LEONTES, LORDS, and OFFICERS",
"LEONTES. This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,\n Even pushes 'gainst our heart- the party tried,\n The daughter of a king, our wife, and one\n Of us too much belov'd. Let us be clear'd\n Of being tyrannous, since we so o... |
4,584 | 1134_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Antigonus, who is carrying the hapless royal infant, asks his mariner if they have landed upon "the deserts of Bohemia." The mariner confirms that they have, but he worries about an approaching storm that he interprets as a punishment by the angry heavens. Antigonus orders the mariner to return to take care of the ship... | [
"Bohemia. The sea-coast",
"Enter ANTIGONUS with the CHILD, and a MARINER",
"ANTIGONUS. Thou art perfect then our ship hath touch'd upon\n The deserts of Bohemia? MARINER. Ay, my lord, and fear\n We have landed in ill time; the skies look grimly\n And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,\n Th... |
4,585 | 1134_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Chorus symbolizing Time announces that sixteen years have passed. During those years, Leontes has replaced his jealousy with seclusion, while Florizel and Perdita have grown up and matured in Bohemia. | [
"Enter TIME, the CHORUS",
"TIME. I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror\n Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,\n Now take upon me, in the name of Time,\n To use my wings. Impute it not a crime\n To me or my swift passage that I slide\n O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth u... |
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