Word: sardou
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics complain that it is not a "well-made play" a la Sardou--something it had no intention of being. Cyrano's unity is emotional, not academic. It presents an ideal attitude, tests it for three acts, and verifies it in the last act. The attitude here, as in Rostand's other works, is, as Rostand himself put it, "the need to preserve one's dream; to have eyes which, seeing the ugly, can see the beautiful all the same." Consequently, it is a play whose focus and mood is always rapidly changing, like a kaleidoscope...
...could give an answer, but one girl eventually uncovered some evidence that the composer's great-grandfather was a Scot named Izett-a handy connection, as Lucia is laid in Scotland. ¶ Why did Puccini change the church in Tosca? In the original play, La Tosca, by Yictorien Sardou, it was Rome's Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, an edifice still set amid open spaces through which the revolutionary Angelotti could have escaped; in the opera, Puccini's church (Sant' Andrea della Valle) is in a thickly built-up part of Rome, where the escape seems...
...most interesting letters in the collection is a Shaw editing job on Golding Bright's trial review of Sardou's Odette...