←Menu of Letters 1898

Aet. 46, to a French man of letters whose country house Le Val Chagis was in Fontainebleau.

Edmond Rostand‘s five-act comedy Cyrano de Bergerac (1897, published 1898) opened in London at the Lyceum, 4 July 1898.

In Studies in Foreign Literature (1899), George Moore’s friend Virginia Crawford quoted from the fourth act of Cyrano de Bergerac to argue that Rostand was not a serious poet, but the French equivalent of Rudyard Kipling. George’s views on the new drama echoed throughout her essay.