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1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_14_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 2.scene 8 | scene 8 | null | {"name": "Scene 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano25.asp", "summary": "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 fe... | Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, who are eating and drinking at the tables right
and left.
CYRANO (bowing mockingly to those who go out without daring to salute him):
Gentlemen. . .Gentlemen. . .
LE BRET (coming back, despairingly):
Here's a fine coil!
CYRANO:
Oh! scold away!
LE BRET:
At least, you will agree
... | 827 | Scene 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano25.asp | 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. ... | null | 427 | 1 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_15_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 2.scene 9 | scene 9 | null | {"name": "Scene 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano27.asp", "summary": "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 bra... | Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, Christian de Neuvillette.
A CADET (seated at a table, glass in hand):
Cyrano!
(Cyrano turns round):
The story!
CYRANO:
In its time!
(He goes up on Le Bret's arm. They talk in low voices.)
THE CADET (rising and coming down):
The story of the fray! 'Twill lesson well
(He stops b... | 909 | Scene 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano27.asp | 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... | Notes Scene 9 opens with the cadets warning Christian that he must never mention Cyrano's nose in front of him, for he is very sensitive about its size and ugliness. Christian, however, does not heed their warning. Wanting to prove he is brave, he interrupts Cyrano and dares to criticize his nose. The other cadets are ... | 283 | 433 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/19.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_16_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 2.scene 10 | scene 10 | null | {"name": "Scene 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano27.asp", "summary": "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 br... | Cyrano, Christian.
CYRANO:
Embrace me now!
CHRISTIAN:
Sir. . .
CYRANO:
You are brave.
CHRISTIAN:
Oh! but. . .
CYRANO:
Nay, I insist.
CHRISTIAN:
Pray tell me. . .
CYRANO:
Come, embrace! I am her brother.
CHRISTIAN:
Whose brother?
CYRANO:
Hers i' faith! Roxane's!
CHRISTIAN (rushing up to him... | 753 | Scene 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano27.asp | 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... | Notes Scene 9 opens with the cadets warning Christian that he must never mention Cyrano's nose in front of him, for he is very sensitive about its size and ugliness. Christian, however, does not heed their warning. Wanting to prove he is brave, he interrupts Cyrano and dares to criticize his nose. The other cadets are ... | 283 | 433 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_17_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 2.scene 11 | scene 11 | null | {"name": "Scene 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano27.asp", "summary": "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 br... | Cyrano, Christian, the Gascons, the musketeer, Lise.
A CADET (half opening the door):
Naught here!. . .The silence of the grave!
I dare not look. . .
(He puts his head in):
Why?. . .
ALL THE CADETS (entering, and seeing Cyrano and Christian embracing):
Oh!. . .
A CADET:
This passes all!
(Consternation.)
... | 145 | Scene 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano27.asp | 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... | Notes Scene 9 opens with the cadets warning Christian that he must never mention Cyrano's nose in front of him, for he is very sensitive about its size and ugliness. Christian, however, does not heed their warning. Wanting to prove he is brave, he interrupts Cyrano and dares to criticize his nose. The other cadets are ... | 283 | 433 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_18_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 1 | scene 1 | null | {"name": "Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano28.asp", "summary": "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 wa... | Ragueneau, the duenna. Then Roxane, Cyrano, and two pages.
RAGUENEAU:
--And then, off she went, with a musketeer! Deserted and ruined too, I
would make an end of all, and so hanged myself. My last breath was drawn:--
then in comes Monsieur de Bergerac! He cuts me down, and begs his cousin to
take me for her stew... | 1,005 | Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano28.asp | 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. ... | Notes Rostand creates the musketeer as a very negative character. In the last scene, he was foolish enough to inappropriately insult Cyrano's nose. Now he has run off with the wife of Cyrano's friend. Ragueneau is so upset by Lise's desertion that he tries to kill himself. Cyrano, the play's hero, saves Ragueneau and f... | 257 | 296 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_19_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 2 | scene 2 | null | {"name": "Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano29.asp", "summary": "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 reg... | Roxane, De Guiche, the duenna standing a little way off.
ROXANE (courtesying to De Guiche):
I was going out.
DE GUICHE:
I come to take my leave.
ROXANE:
Whither go you?
DE GUICHE:
To the war.
ROXANE:
Ah!
DE GUICHE:
Ay, to-night.
ROXANE:
Oh!
DE GUICHE:
I am ordered away. We are to besiege Arras.... | 810 | Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano29.asp | 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... | Notes The power of Roxane to manipulate De Guiche proves to the audience that she is more than an intellectually affected woman. When she learns that Christian and Cyrano will be sent off to Arras along with De Guiche, she uses Cyrano as an excuse to keep Christian and the other Cadets out of the fighting. Then when De... | 200 | 101 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_20_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 3 | scene 3 | null | {"name": "Scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp", "summary": "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 Chri... | Roxane, The duenna, Cyrano.
ROXANE:
We are going to Clomire's house.
(She points to the door opposite):
Alcandre and Lysimon are to discourse!
THE DUENNA (putting her little finger in her ear):
Yes! But my little finger tells me we shall miss them.
CYRANO:
'Twere a pity to miss such apes!
(They have come t... | 255 | Scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp | 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 ... | Notes Rostand cleverly reveals the methodology that Christian and Cyrano employ to trick Roxane. Cyrano tries to find out from Roxane what mood she is in and what she would like to discuss with Christian. He then coaches the handsome cadet on what to say. Christian, however, is tired of giving canned speeches to his tr... | 249 | 256 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_21_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 4 | scene 4 | null | {"name": "Scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp", "summary": "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 Chri... | Cyrano, Christian.
CYRANO:
I know all that is needful. Here's occasion
For you to deck yourself with glory. Come,
Lose no time; put away those sulky looks,
Come to your house with me, I'll teach you. . .
CHRISTIAN:
No!
CYRANO:
Why?
CHRISTIAN:
I will wait for Roxane here.
CYRANO:
How? Crazy?
Co... | 197 | Scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp | 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 ... | Notes Rostand cleverly reveals the methodology that Christian and Cyrano employ to trick Roxane. Cyrano tries to find out from Roxane what mood she is in and what she would like to discuss with Christian. He then coaches the handsome cadet on what to say. Christian, however, is tired of giving canned speeches to his tr... | 249 | 256 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_22_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 5 | scene 5 | null | {"name": "Scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp", "summary": "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 Chri... | Christian, Roxane, the duenna.
ROXANE (coming out of Clomire's house, with a company of friends, whom she
leaves. Bows and good-byes):
Barthenoide!--Alcandre!--Gremione!--
THE DUENNA (bitterly disappointed):
We've missed the speech upon the Tender Passion!
(Goes into Roxane's house.)
ROXANE (still bowing):
U... | 323 | Scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp | 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 ... | Notes Rostand cleverly reveals the methodology that Christian and Cyrano employ to trick Roxane. Cyrano tries to find out from Roxane what mood she is in and what she would like to discuss with Christian. He then coaches the handsome cadet on what to say. Christian, however, is tired of giving canned speeches to his tr... | 249 | 256 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_23_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 6 | scene 6 | null | {"name": "Scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp", "summary": "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 Chri... | Christian, Cyrano, two pages.
CHRISTIAN:
Come to my aid!
CYRANO:
Not I!
CHRISTIAN:
But I shall die,
Unless at once I win back her fair favor.
CYRANO:
And how can I, at once, i' th' devil's name,
Lesson you in. . .
CHRISTIAN (seizing his arm):
Oh, she is there!
(The window of the balcony is now light... | 1,741 | Scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano30.asp | 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 ... | Notes Rostand cleverly reveals the methodology that Christian and Cyrano employ to trick Roxane. Cyrano tries to find out from Roxane what mood she is in and what she would like to discuss with Christian. He then coaches the handsome cadet on what to say. Christian, however, is tired of giving canned speeches to his tr... | 249 | 256 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_24_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 7 | scene 7 | null | {"name": "Scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano31.asp", "summary": "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... | Cyrano, Christian, a capuchin friar.
CYRANO (to the friar):
What do you, playing at Diogenes?
THE FRIAR:
I seek the house of Madame. . .
CHRISTIAN:
Oh! plague take him!
THE FRIAR:
Madeleine Robin. . .
CHRISTIAN:
What would he?. . .
CYRANO (pointing to a street at the back):
This way!
Straight on. . ... | 91 | Scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano31.asp | 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... | Notes This humorous balcony scene, filled with dramatic irony, has become quite famous. Cyrano hides in the darkness marvelously expressing his true emotions for Roxane. His speech is filled with sensory images and comparisons, such as calling his heart a bell. It is Christian, however, who delivers the words of love t... | 184 | 444 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_25_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 8 | scene 8 | null | {"name": "Scene 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano32.asp", "summary": "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 ... | Cyrano, Christian.
CHRISTIAN:
Oh! win for me that kiss. . .
CYRANO:
No!
CHRISTIAN:
Soon or late!. . .
CYRANO:
'Tis true! The moment of intoxication--
Of madness,--when your mouths are sure to meet
Thanks to your fair mustache--and her rose lips!
(To himself):
I'd fainer it should come thanks to. . .
... | 68 | Scene 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano32.asp | 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... | Notes The Capuchin monk being misdirected and then blessing Cyrano for his guidance is a light, humorous moment in the play. The moment is spoiled with Christian's insistence on receiving a kiss from Roxane. He instructs Cyrano that he needs to again speak in the voice of Christian and ask Roxane for the embrace one mo... | 72 | 80 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_26_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 9 | scene 9 | null | {"name": "Scene 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano32.asp", "summary": "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 ... | Cyrano, Christian, Roxane.
ROXANE (coming out on the balcony):
Still there?
We spoke of a. . .
CYRANO:
A kiss! The word is sweet.
I see not why your lip should shrink from it;
If the word burns it,--what would the kiss do?
Oh! let it not your bashfulness affright;
Have you not, all this time, insensibl... | 474 | Scene 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano32.asp | 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... | Notes The Capuchin monk being misdirected and then blessing Cyrano for his guidance is a light, humorous moment in the play. The moment is spoiled with Christian's insistence on receiving a kiss from Roxane. He instructs Cyrano that he needs to again speak in the voice of Christian and ask Roxane for the embrace one mo... | 72 | 80 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_27_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 10 | scene 10 | null | {"name": "Scene 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano33.asp", "summary": "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... | Cyrano, Christian, Roxane, the friar, Ragueneau.
THE FRIAR:
'Tis here,--I'm sure of it--Madame Madeleine Robin.
CYRANO:
Why, you said Ro-LIN.
THE FRIAR:
No, not I.
B,I,N,BIN!
ROXANE (appearing on the threshold, followed by Ragueneau, who carries a
lantern, and Christian):
What is't?
THE FRIAR:
A letter... | 686 | Scene 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano33.asp | 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... | Notes The dramatic irony of the play continues to build in these scenes. While expounding on the meaning of a kiss in Christian's voice, Cyrano is really declaring his own love for Roxane. He states that a kiss is "a seal on the pact that has already been signed" and "a secret told to the mouth rather than the ear." He... | 230 | 418 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_28_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 11 | scene 11 | null | {"name": "Scene 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano33.asp", "summary": "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... | Cyrano, De Guiche.
DE GUICHE (who enters, masked, feeling his way in the dark):
What can that cursed Friar be about?
CYRANO:
The devil!. . .If he knows my voice!
(Letting go with one hand, he pretends to turn an invisible key. Solemnly):
Cric! Crac!
Assume thou, Cyrano, to serve the turn,
The accent of th... | 1,430 | Scene 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano33.asp | 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... | Notes The dramatic irony of the play continues to build in these scenes. While expounding on the meaning of a kiss in Christian's voice, Cyrano is really declaring his own love for Roxane. He states that a kiss is "a seal on the pact that has already been signed" and "a secret told to the mouth rather than the ear." He... | 230 | 418 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_29_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 3.scene 12 | scene 12 | null | {"name": "Scene 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano34.asp", "summary": "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 swin... | The same. Roxane, Christian, the friar, Ragueneau, lackeys, the duenna.
DE GUICHE (to Roxane):
You?
(Recognizing Christian, in amazement):
He?
(Bowing, with admiration, to Roxane):
Cunningly contrived!
(To Cyrano):
My compliments--Sir Apparatus-maker!
Your story would arrest at Peter's gate
Saints eager f... | 338 | Scene 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano34.asp | 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... | Notes This scene is filled with intentional pathos. Poor Cyrano is left outside to wait for and delay De Guiche while his true love marries Christian inside the house. When De Guiche arrives in mask, the clever Cyrano chatters to him to delay his entering Roxane's house and discovering the wedding that is in progress. ... | 170 | 313 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_30_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 1 | scene 13 | null | {"name": "Scene 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano34.asp", "summary": "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 swin... | Christian, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, Le Bret, the cadets, then Cyrano.
LE BRET:
'Tis terrible.
CARBON:
Not a morsel left.
LE BRET:
Mordioux!
CARBON (making a sign that he should speak lower):
Curse under your breath. You will awake them.
(To the cadets):
Hush! Sleep on.
(To Le Bret):
He who sleeps, din... | 472 | Scene 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano34.asp | 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... | Notes This scene is filled with intentional pathos. Poor Cyrano is left outside to wait for and delay De Guiche while his true love marries Christian inside the house. When De Guiche arrives in mask, the clever Cyrano chatters to him to delay his entering Roxane's house and discovering the wedding that is in progress. ... | 170 | 313 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_31_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 5.scene 1 | scene 1 | null | {"name": "Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano35.asp", "summary": "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 bes... | Mother Marguerite, Sister Martha, Sister Claire, other sisters.
SISTER MARTHA (to Mother Marguerite):
Sister Claire glanced in the mirror, once--nay, twice, to see if her coif
suited.
MOTHER MARGUERITE (to Sister Claire):
'Tis not well.
SISTER CLAIRE:
But I saw Sister Martha take a plum
Out of the tart.
MOT... | 456 | Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano35.asp | 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... | Notes This scene is a total contrast to the earlier light, humorous scenes. It gives Background Information about what has happened at Arras between the time of the last scene, set at Roxane's house, and this scene, set at the Gascon camp outside of Arras. The Spanish troops have encircled the French and cut off their ... | 109 | 131 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_32_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 2 | scene 2 | null | {"name": "Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano36.asp", "summary": "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 sit... | The same, all but Cyrano. The day is breaking in a rosy light. The town of
Arras is golden in the horizon. The report of cannon is heard in the
distance, followed immediately by the beating of drums far away to the left.
Other drums are heard much nearer. Sounds of stirring in the camp. Voices of
officers in the di... | 321 | Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano36.asp | 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... | Notes When the cadets wake and threaten mutiny, Cyrano is called to calm them. His interaction with the cadets reveals his natural leadership and his keen wit. To try and cheer the cadets, he gives French proverbs about hunger and wittily comments on them. When the wit fails to work on the cadets, he orders the piper t... | 151 | 193 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_33_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 3 | scene 3 | null | {"name": "Scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano36.asp", "summary": "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 sit... | The SAME. Cyrano.
CYRANO (appearing from the tent, very calm, with a pen stuck behind his ear
and a book in his hand):
What is wrong?
(Silence. To the first cadet):
Why drag you your legs so sorrowfully?
THE CADET:
I have something in my heels which weighs them down.
CYRANO:
And what may that be?
THE CADE... | 934 | Scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano36.asp | 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... | Notes When the cadets wake and threaten mutiny, Cyrano is called to calm them. His interaction with the cadets reveals his natural leadership and his keen wit. To try and cheer the cadets, he gives French proverbs about hunger and wittily comments on them. When the wit fails to work on the cadets, he orders the piper t... | 151 | 193 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_34_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 4 | scene 4 | null | {"name": "Scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano37.asp", "summary": "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 ... | The same. De Guiche.
DE GUICHE (to Carbon):
Good-day!
(They examine each other. Aside, with satisfaction):
He's green.
CARBON (aside):
He has nothing left but eyes.
DE GUICHE (looking at the cadets):
Here are the rebels! Ay, Sirs, on all sides
I hear that in your ranks you scoff at me;
That the Cadets... | 1,412 | Scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano37.asp | 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... | null | 421 | 1 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_35_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 5 | scene 5 | null | {"name": "Scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano39.asp", "summary": "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 t... | The same. Roxane.
DE GUICHE:
On the King's service! You?
ROXANE:
Ay,--King Love's! What other king?
CYRANO:
Great God!
CHRISTIAN (rushing forward):
Why have you come?
ROXANE:
This siege--'tis too long!
CHRISTIAN:
But why?. . .
ROXANE:
I will tell you all!
CYRANO (who, at the sound of her voice,... | 770 | Scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano39.asp | 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... | Notes At the end of the last scene, the Cadets have all lined up, bowing low in expectation of the arrival of the king. They are fully shocked when Roxane emerges from the carriage. They are not expecting a beautiful woman in their midst. They respond by stating that the camp suddenly smells of irises and by promising ... | 131 | 219 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_36_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 6 | scene 6 | null | {"name": "Scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano40.asp", "summary": "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 ment... | The same, all but De Guiche.
CHRISTIAN (entreatingly):
Roxane!
ROXANE:
No!
FIRST CADET (to the others):
She stays!
ALL (hurrying, hustling each other, tidying themselves):
A comb!--Soap!--My uniform is torn!--A needle!--A ribbon!--Lend your
mirror!--My cuffs!--Your curling-iron!--A razor!. . .
ROXANE (to C... | 954 | Scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano40.asp | 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... | Notes Scenes 5 through 7 are probably the weakest ones in the play, for they border on the totally ridiculous and unbelievable. It is hard to imagine that a woman, even an impulsive and determined one like Roxane, would risk her life to come to the front and be successful in charming the Spanish soldiers to let her thr... | 335 | 421 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_37_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 7 | scene 7 | null | {"name": "Scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano40.asp", "summary": "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 ment... | The same. De Guiche.
DE GUICHE:
It smells good here.
A CADET (humming):
Lo! Lo-lo!
DE GUICHE (looking at him):
What is the matter?--You are very red.
THE CADET:
The matter?--Nothing!--'Tis my blood--boiling at the thought of the coming
battle!
ANOTHER:
Poum, poum--poum. . .
DE GUICHE (turning round):
... | 758 | Scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano40.asp | 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... | Notes Scenes 5 through 7 are probably the weakest ones in the play, for they border on the totally ridiculous and unbelievable. It is hard to imagine that a woman, even an impulsive and determined one like Roxane, would risk her life to come to the front and be successful in charming the Spanish soldiers to let her thr... | 335 | 421 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_38_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 8 | scene 8 | null | {"name": "Scene 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano41.asp", "summary": "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 overwhe... | Roxane, Christian. In the distance cadets coming and going. Carbon and De
Guiche give orders.
ROXANE (running up to Christian):
Ah, Christian, at last!. . .
CHRISTIAN (taking her hands):
Now tell me why--
Why, by these fearful paths so perilous--
Across these ranks of ribald soldiery,
You have come?
ROXA... | 728 | Scene 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano41.asp | 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... | null | 486 | 1 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_39_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 9 | scene 9 | null | {"name": "Scene 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano41.asp", "summary": "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 overwhe... | Christian, Cyrano. At back Roxane talking to Carbon and some cadets.
CHRISTIAN (calling toward Cyrano's tent):
Cyrano!
CYRANO (reappearing, fully armed):
What? Why so pale?
CHRISTIAN:
She does not love me!
CYRANO:
What?
CHRISTIAN:
'Tis you she loves!
CYRANO:
No!
CHRISTIAN:
--For she loves me only... | 357 | Scene 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano41.asp | 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... | null | 486 | 1 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_40_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 4.scene 10 | scene 10 | null | {"name": "Scene 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano41.asp", "summary": "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 overwh... | Roxane, Cyrano. Then Le Bret, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, Ragueneau,
De Guiche, etc.
ROXANE:
Important, how?
CYRANO (in despair. to Roxane):
He's gone! 'Tis naught!--Oh, you know how he sees
Importance in a trifle!
ROXANE (warmly):
Did he doubt
Of what I said?--Ah, yes, I saw he doubted!
CYRANO... | 1,120 | Scene 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano41.asp | 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... | null | 486 | 1 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_42_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 5.scene 2 | scene 2 | null | {"name": "Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano43.asp", "summary": "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 .... | Roxane; the Duke de Grammont, formerly Count de Guiche. Then Le Bret and
Ragueneau.
THE DUKE:
And you stay here still--ever vainly fair,
Ever in weeds?
ROXANE:
Ever.
THE DUKE:
Still faithful?
ROXANE:
Still.
THE DUKE (after a pause):
Am I forgiven?
ROXANE:
Ay, since I am here.
(Another pause.)
THE... | 802 | Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano43.asp | 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 ... | Notes The last act of the play is set fifteen years after the battle of Arras. The purpose of these opening scenes of the last act is to reveal to the audience what has happened to Cyrano, De Guiche, and Roxane for the last fifteen years. Roxane is still in mourning for her dead husband. She is living in a convent outs... | 368 | 241 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_43_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 5.scene 3 | scene 3 | null | {"name": "Scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano44.asp", "summary": "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 ... | Le Bret, Ragueneau.
RAGUENEAU:
Since you are here, 'tis best she should not know!
I was going to your friend just now--was but
A few steps from the house, when I saw him
Go out. I hurried to him. Saw him turn
The corner. . .suddenly, from out a window
Where he was passing--was it chance?. . .may be!
A ... | 265 | Scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano44.asp | 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... | Notes Ragueneau tells Le Bret that Cyrano has been injured. In truth, he has been attacked by a cowardly enemy who orders his servant to drop a piece of firewood on Cyrano's head. The historical Cyrano was injured in the same manner; however, he lived nearly a year after his accident. Both of them die in September. The... | 183 | 208 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_44_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 5.scene 4 | scene 4 | null | {"name": "Scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano44.asp", "summary": "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 ... | Roxane alone. Two sisters, for a moment.
ROXANE:
Ah! what a beauty in September's close!
My sorrow's eased. April's joy dazzled it,
But autumn wins it with her dying calm.
(She seats herself at the embroidery frame. Two sisters come out of the
house, and bring a large armchair under the tree):
There comes t... | 171 | Scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano44.asp | 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... | Notes Ragueneau tells Le Bret that Cyrano has been injured. In truth, he has been attacked by a cowardly enemy who orders his servant to drop a piece of firewood on Cyrano's head. The historical Cyrano was injured in the same manner; however, he lived nearly a year after his accident. Both of them die in September. The... | 183 | 208 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_45_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 5.scene 5 | scene 5 | null | {"name": "Scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano45.asp", "summary": "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 o... | Roxane, Cyrano and, for a moment, Sister Martha.
ROXANE (without turning round):
What was I saying?. . .
(She embroiders. Cyrano, very pale, his hat pulled down over his eyes,
appears. The sister who had announced him retires. He descends the steps
slowly, with a visible difficulty in holding himself upright, bea... | 1,444 | Scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano45.asp | 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... | null | 518 | 1 |
1,254 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Cyrano De Bergerac/section_46_part_0.txt | Cyrano De Bergerac.act 5.scene 6 | scene 6 | null | {"name": "Scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano45.asp", "summary": "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 o... | The same. Le Bret and Ragueneau.
LE BRET:
What madness! Here? I knew it well!
CYRANO (smiling and sitting up):
What now?
LE BRET:
He has brought his death by coming, Madame.
ROXANE:
God!
Ah, then! that faintness of a moment since. . .?
CYRANO:
Why, true! It interrupted the 'Gazette:'
. . .Saturda... | 1,175 | Scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820053313/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCyrano45.asp | 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... | null | 518 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/2.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_1_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 1 | act 1, scene 1 | null | {"name": "act 1, scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes1-3", "summary": "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 Cloris... | The public, arriving by degrees. Troopers, burghers, lackeys, pages, a
pickpocket, the doorkeeper, etc., followed by the marquises. Cuigy,
Brissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc.
(A confusion of loud voices is heard outside the door. A trooper enters
hastily.)
THE DOORKEEPER (following him):
Hollo! Yo... | 923 | act 1, scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes1-3 | 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... | null | 110 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/3.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_1_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 2 | act 1, scene 2 | null | {"name": "Act 1, scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes1-3", "summary": "Ligniere introduces Christian to some Marquises. Christian has just arrived in Paris to join the Guards. The Marquises think that Christian is not very fashi... | The same. Christian, Ligniere, then Ragueneau and Le Bret.
CUIGY:
Ligniere!
BRISSAILLE (laughing):
Not drunk as yet?
LIGNIERE (aside to Christian):
I may introduce you?
(Christian nods in assent):
Baron de Neuvillette.
(Bows.)
THE AUDIENCE (applauding as the first luster is lighted and drawn up):
Ah!
C... | 1,546 | Act 1, scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes1-3 | 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... | null | 276 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/4.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_1_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 3 | act 1, scene 3 | null | {"name": "Act 1, scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes1-3", "summary": "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... | The same, all but Ligniere. De Guiche, Valvert, then Montfleury.
A marquis (watching De Guiche, who comes down from Roxane's box, and crosses
the pit surrounded by obsequious noblemen, among them the Viscount de
Valvert):
He pays a fine court, your De Guiche!
ANOTHER:
Faugh!. . .Another Gascon!
THE FIRST:
Ay,... | 1,042 | Act 1, scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes1-3 | 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... | of Act 1, scenes 1-3. These scenes introduce the social and cultural background, the characters, and the first seeds of the plot. The theater is presented as a microcosm of Parisian society, bringing together people from all social backgrounds and walks of life. Poetry and literature are unifying influences: the marqu... | 203 | 571 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/5.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_2_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 4 | act 1, scene 4 | null | {"name": "act 1, scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7", "summary": "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 for... | The same. Cyrano, then Bellerose, Jodelet.
MONTFLEURY (to the marquises):
Come to my help, my lords!
A MARQUIS (carelessly):
Go on! Go on!
CYRANO:
Fat man, take warning! If you go on, I
Shall feel myself constrained to cuff your face!
THE MARQUIS:
Have done!
CYRANO:
And if these lords hold not their... | 3,373 | act 1, scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7 | 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... | null | 399 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/6.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_2_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 5 | act 1, scene 5 | null | {"name": "Act 1, scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7", "summary": "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 lo... | Cyrano, Le Bret.
CYRANO (to Le Bret):
Now talk--I listen.
(He stands at the buffet, and placing before him first the macaroon):
Dinner!. . .
(then the grapes):
Dessert!. . .
(then the glass of water):
Wine!. . .
(he seats himself):
So! And now to table!
Ah! I was hungry, friend, nay, ravenous!
(eating):
... | 937 | Act 1, scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7 | 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... | null | 111 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/7.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_2_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 6 | act 1, scene 6 | null | {"name": "Act 1, scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7", "summary": "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):
I was bid ask you where a certain lady
Could see her valiant cousin--but in secret.
CYRANO (overwhelmed):
See me?
THE DUENNA (courtesying):
Ay, Sir! She has somewhat to tell.
CYRANO:
Somewhat?. . .
THE DUENNA (still courtesying):
Ay, private ma... | 148 | Act 1, scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7 | 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 | null | 25 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/8.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_2_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 1.scene 7 | act 1, scene 7 | null | {"name": "Act 1, scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7", "summary": "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 whethe... | Cyrano, Le Bret. Then actors, actresses, Cuigy, Brissaille, Ligniere, the
porter, the violinists.
CYRANO (falling into Le Bret's arms):
A rendezvous. . .from her!. . .
LE BRET:
You're sad no more!
CYRANO:
Ah! Let the world go burn! She knows I live!
LE BRET:
Now you'll be calm, I hope?
CYRANO (beside hi... | 771 | Act 1, scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act1-scenes4-7 | 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 disrupts a performance of a play because the actor is untalented and the play undistinguished, paying his entire monthly allowance to the theater manager in compensation for the lost revenue and facing starvation as a result. This grand gesture encapsulates Cyrano's heroic stature and is Rostand's way of asser... | 154 | 444 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 1 | act 2, scene 1 | null | {"name": "act 2, scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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, pastry-cooks, then Lise. Ragueneau is writing, with an inspired
air, at a small table, and counting on his fingers.
FIRST PASTRY-COOK (bringing in an elaborate fancy dish):
Fruits in nougat!
SECOND PASTRY-COOK (bringing another dish):
Custard!
THIRD PASTRY-COOK (bringing a roast, decorated with feath... | 524 | act 2, scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | null | 76 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 2 | act 2, scene 2 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 fre... | The same. Two children, who have just trotted into the shop.
RAGUENEAU:
What would you, little ones?
FIRST CHILD:
Three pies.
RAGUENEAU (serving them):
See, hot and well browned.
SECOND CHILD:
If it please you, Sir, will you wrap them up for us?
RAGUENEAU (aside, distressed):
Alas! one of my bags!
(To t... | 254 | Act 2, scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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 | null | 34 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 3 | act 2, scene 3 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 ... | Ragueneau, Lise, Cyrano, then the musketeer.
CYRANO:
What's o'clock?
RAGUENEAU (bowing low):
Six o'clock.
CYRANO (with emotion):
In one hour's time!
(He paces up and down the shop.)
RAGUENEAU (following him):
Bravo! I saw. . .
CYRANO:
Well, what saw you, then?
RAGUENEAU:
Your combat!. . .
CYRANO:
... | 505 | Act 2, scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | null | 84 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 4 | act 2, scene 4 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 talk... | Ragueneau, Lise, the musketeer. Cyrano at the little table writing. The
poets, dressed in black, their stockings ungartered, and covered with mud.
LISE (entering, to Ragueneau):
Here they come, your mud-bespattered friends!
FIRST POET (entering, to Ragueneau):
Brother in art!. . .
SECOND POET (to Ragueneau, sh... | 1,005 | Act 2, scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | null | 131 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_5.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 5 | act 2, scene 5 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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", "analysis": ""} | Cyrano, Roxane, the duenna.
CYRANO:
Ah! if I see but the faint glimmer of hope, then I draw out my letter!
(Roxane, masked, followed by the duenna, appears at the glass pane of the
door. He opens quickly):
Enter!. . .
(Walking up to the duenna):
Two words with you, Duenna.
THE DUENNA:
Four, Sir, an it like y... | 236 | Act 2, scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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 | null | 25 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/15.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_6.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 6 | act 2, scene 6 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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... | Cyrano, Roxane.
CYRANO:
Blessed be the moment when you condescend--
Remembering that humbly I exist--
To come to meet me, and to say. . .to tell?. . .
ROXANE (who has unmasked):
To thank you first of all. That dandy count,
Whom you checkmated in brave sword-play
Last night,. . .he is the man whom a great... | 1,103 | Act 2, scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | null | 225 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/16.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_7.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 7 | act 2, scene 7 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 C... | Cyrano, Ragueneau, poets, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, a crowd, then
De Guiche.
RAGUENEAU:
Can we come in?
CYRANO (without stirring):
Yes. . .
(Ragueneau signs to his friends, and they come in. At the same time, by door
at back, enters Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, in Captain's uniform. He makes
gestures of... | 1,515 | Act 2, scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | null | 185 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_8.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 8 | act 2, scene 8 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 ... | Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, who are eating and drinking at the tables right
and left.
CYRANO (bowing mockingly to those who go out without daring to salute him):
Gentlemen. . .Gentlemen. . .
LE BRET (coming back, despairingly):
Here's a fine coil!
CYRANO:
Oh! scold away!
LE BRET:
At least, you will agree
... | 827 | Act 2, scene 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | null | 74 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_9.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 9 | act 2, scene 9 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 Cy... | Cyrano, Le Bret, the cadets, Christian de Neuvillette.
A CADET (seated at a table, glass in hand):
Cyrano!
(Cyrano turns round):
The story!
CYRANO:
In its time!
(He goes up on Le Bret's arm. They talk in low voices.)
THE CADET (rising and coming down):
The story of the fray! 'Twill lesson well
(He stops b... | 909 | Act 2, scene 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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 ... | null | 166 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/19.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_3_part_10.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 2.scene 10 | act 2, scene 10 | null | {"name": "Act 2, scene 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10", "summary": "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 hi... | Cyrano, Christian.
CYRANO:
Embrace me now!
CHRISTIAN:
Sir. . .
CYRANO:
You are brave.
CHRISTIAN:
Oh! but. . .
CYRANO:
Nay, I insist.
CHRISTIAN:
Pray tell me. . .
CYRANO:
Come, embrace! I am her brother.
CHRISTIAN:
Whose brother?
CYRANO:
Hers i' faith! Roxane's!
CHRISTIAN (rushing up to him... | 753 | Act 2, scene 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act2-scenes1-10 | 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... | of Act 2, scenes 1-10. Act 2 draws a stark contrast between Cyrano's fearlessness in matters of courage and honor in battle, and his terror when faced with his love for Roxane. Christian, another brave man whose courage fails him in love, is Cyrano's mirror when it comes to feeling inadequate as a lover. But Christian ... | 183 | 612 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_4_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 1 | act 3, scene 1 | null | {"name": "act 3, scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4", "summary": "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. Raguene... | Ragueneau, the duenna. Then Roxane, Cyrano, and two pages.
RAGUENEAU:
--And then, off she went, with a musketeer! Deserted and ruined too, I
would make an end of all, and so hanged myself. My last breath was drawn:--
then in comes Monsieur de Bergerac! He cuts me down, and begs his cousin to
take me for her stew... | 1,005 | act 3, scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4 | 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... | null | 164 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_4_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 2 | act 3, scene 2 | null | {"name": "act 3, scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4", "summary": "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 w... | Roxane, De Guiche, the duenna standing a little way off.
ROXANE (courtesying to De Guiche):
I was going out.
DE GUICHE:
I come to take my leave.
ROXANE:
Whither go you?
DE GUICHE:
To the war.
ROXANE:
Ah!
DE GUICHE:
Ay, to-night.
ROXANE:
Oh!
DE GUICHE:
I am ordered away. We are to besiege Arras.... | 810 | act 3, scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4 | 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... | null | 172 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_4_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 3 | act 3, scene 3 | null | {"name": "act 3, scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4", "summary": "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 t... | Roxane, The duenna, Cyrano.
ROXANE:
We are going to Clomire's house.
(She points to the door opposite):
Alcandre and Lysimon are to discourse!
THE DUENNA (putting her little finger in her ear):
Yes! But my little finger tells me we shall miss them.
CYRANO:
'Twere a pity to miss such apes!
(They have come t... | 255 | act 3, scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4 | 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... | null | 79 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_4_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 4 | act 3, scene 4 | null | {"name": "act 3, scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4", "summary": "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... | Cyrano, Christian.
CYRANO:
I know all that is needful. Here's occasion
For you to deck yourself with glory. Come,
Lose no time; put away those sulky looks,
Come to your house with me, I'll teach you. . .
CHRISTIAN:
No!
CYRANO:
Why?
CHRISTIAN:
I will wait for Roxane here.
CYRANO:
How? Crazy?
Co... | 197 | act 3, scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes1-4 | 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. | of scenes 1-4. Cyrano's heroism is reinforced in this section by his compassionate treatment of Ragueneau after his wife runs away with the Musketeer. Cyrano saves him from a suicide attempt and gets him a job with Roxane. Roxane is revealed as a quick-thinking and resourceful woman. She successfully convinces de Guich... | 35 | 203 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 5 | act 3, scene 5 | null | {"name": "act 3, scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "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.... | Christian, Roxane, the duenna.
ROXANE (coming out of Clomire's house, with a company of friends, whom she
leaves. Bows and good-byes):
Barthenoide!--Alcandre!--Gremione!--
THE DUENNA (bitterly disappointed):
We've missed the speech upon the Tender Passion!
(Goes into Roxane's house.)
ROXANE (still bowing):
U... | 323 | act 3, scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | 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... | null | 68 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 6 | act 3, scene 6 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "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 ba... | Christian, Cyrano, two pages.
CHRISTIAN:
Come to my aid!
CYRANO:
Not I!
CHRISTIAN:
But I shall die,
Unless at once I win back her fair favor.
CYRANO:
And how can I, at once, i' th' devil's name,
Lesson you in. . .
CHRISTIAN (seizing his arm):
Oh, she is there!
(The window of the balcony is now light... | 1,741 | Act 3, scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | 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 | null | 51 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 7 | act 3, scene 7 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "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 wit... | Cyrano, Christian, a capuchin friar.
CYRANO (to the friar):
What do you, playing at Diogenes?
THE FRIAR:
I seek the house of Madame. . .
CHRISTIAN:
Oh! plague take him!
THE FRIAR:
Madeleine Robin. . .
CHRISTIAN:
What would he?. . .
CYRANO (pointing to a street at the back):
This way!
Straight on. . ... | 91 | Act 3, scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | 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... | null | 160 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 8 | act 3, scene 8 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "A Capuchin monk enters, looking for Roxane's house. Cyrano, not wanting to be disturbed, sends him in the opposite direction", "analysis": ""} | Cyrano, Christian.
CHRISTIAN:
Oh! win for me that kiss. . .
CYRANO:
No!
CHRISTIAN:
Soon or late!. . .
CYRANO:
'Tis true! The moment of intoxication--
Of madness,--when your mouths are sure to meet
Thanks to your fair mustache--and her rose lips!
(To himself):
I'd fainer it should come thanks to. . .
... | 68 | Act 3, scene 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | A Capuchin monk enters, looking for Roxane's house. Cyrano, not wanting to be disturbed, sends him in the opposite direction | null | 20 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_5.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 9 | act 3, scene 9 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "Christian tells Cyrano that he must have a kiss from Roxane. Cyrano reluctantly agrees", "analysis": ""} | Cyrano, Christian, Roxane.
ROXANE (coming out on the balcony):
Still there?
We spoke of a. . .
CYRANO:
A kiss! The word is sweet.
I see not why your lip should shrink from it;
If the word burns it,--what would the kiss do?
Oh! let it not your bashfulness affright;
Have you not, all this time, insensibl... | 474 | Act 3, scene 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | Christian tells Cyrano that he must have a kiss from Roxane. Cyrano reluctantly agrees | null | 14 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_6.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 10 | act 3, scene 10 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "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, ... | Cyrano, Christian, Roxane, the friar, Ragueneau.
THE FRIAR:
'Tis here,--I'm sure of it--Madame Madeleine Robin.
CYRANO:
Why, you said Ro-LIN.
THE FRIAR:
No, not I.
B,I,N,BIN!
ROXANE (appearing on the threshold, followed by Ragueneau, who carries a
lantern, and Christian):
What is't?
THE FRIAR:
A letter... | 686 | Act 3, scene 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | 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... | null | 56 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_7.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 11 | act 3, scene 11 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "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 no... | Cyrano, De Guiche.
DE GUICHE (who enters, masked, feeling his way in the dark):
What can that cursed Friar be about?
CYRANO:
The devil!. . .If he knows my voice!
(Letting go with one hand, he pretends to turn an invisible key. Solemnly):
Cric! Crac!
Assume thou, Cyrano, to serve the turn,
The accent of th... | 1,430 | Act 3, scene 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | 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... | null | 121 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_5_part_8.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 3.scene 12 | act 3, scene 12 | null | {"name": "Act 3, scene 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14", "summary": "Cyrano pulls his hat down over his eyes and waits on the balcony for de Guiche", "analysis": ""} | The same. Roxane, Christian, the friar, Ragueneau, lackeys, the duenna.
DE GUICHE (to Roxane):
You?
(Recognizing Christian, in amazement):
He?
(Bowing, with admiration, to Roxane):
Cunningly contrived!
(To Cyrano):
My compliments--Sir Apparatus-maker!
Your story would arrest at Peter's gate
Saints eager f... | 338 | Act 3, scene 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act3-scenes5-14 | Cyrano pulls his hat down over his eyes and waits on the balcony for de Guiche | null | 16 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_6_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 1 | act 4, scene 1 | null | {"name": "act 4, scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5", "summary": "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. T... | Christian, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, Le Bret, the cadets, then Cyrano.
LE BRET:
'Tis terrible.
CARBON:
Not a morsel left.
LE BRET:
Mordioux!
CARBON (making a sign that he should speak lower):
Curse under your breath. You will awake them.
(To the cadets):
Hush! Sleep on.
(To Le Bret):
He who sleeps, din... | 472 | act 4, scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5 | 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... | null | 78 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_6_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 2 | act 4, scene 2 | null | {"name": "act 4, scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5", "summary": "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
Arras is golden in the horizon. The report of cannon is heard in the
distance, followed immediately by the beating of drums far away to the left.
Other drums are heard much nearer. Sounds of stirring in the camp. Voices of
officers in the di... | 321 | act 4, scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5 | 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 | null | 27 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_6_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 3 | act 4, scene 3 | null | {"name": "act 4, scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5", "summary": "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 ... | The SAME. Cyrano.
CYRANO (appearing from the tent, very calm, with a pen stuck behind his ear
and a book in his hand):
What is wrong?
(Silence. To the first cadet):
Why drag you your legs so sorrowfully?
THE CADET:
I have something in my heels which weighs them down.
CYRANO:
And what may that be?
THE CADE... | 934 | act 4, scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5 | 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... | null | 63 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_6_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 4 | act 4, scene 4 | null | {"name": "act 4, scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5", "summary": "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 tha... | The same. De Guiche.
DE GUICHE (to Carbon):
Good-day!
(They examine each other. Aside, with satisfaction):
He's green.
CARBON (aside):
He has nothing left but eyes.
DE GUICHE (looking at the cadets):
Here are the rebels! Ay, Sirs, on all sides
I hear that in your ranks you scoff at me;
That the Cadets... | 1,412 | act 4, scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5 | 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... | null | 293 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_6_part_5.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 5 | act 4, scene 5 | null | {"name": "act 4, scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5", "summary": "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... | The same. Roxane.
DE GUICHE:
On the King's service! You?
ROXANE:
Ay,--King Love's! What other king?
CYRANO:
Great God!
CHRISTIAN (rushing forward):
Why have you come?
ROXANE:
This siege--'tis too long!
CHRISTIAN:
But why?. . .
ROXANE:
I will tell you all!
CYRANO (who, at the sound of her voice,... | 770 | act 4, scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes1-5 | 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... | of scenes 1-5. With the beginning of the tone shifts from boisterous comedy and satire to a more tragic note. At the battlefront, the Guards are starving and demoralized. Only Cyrano retains a positive outlook, and is called upon by Carbon to cheer up the men, which he does. Cyrano's resilience can be attributed for th... | 154 | 383 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_7_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 6 | act 4, scene 6 | null | {"name": "act 4, scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10", "summary": "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 ... | The same, all but De Guiche.
CHRISTIAN (entreatingly):
Roxane!
ROXANE:
No!
FIRST CADET (to the others):
She stays!
ALL (hurrying, hustling each other, tidying themselves):
A comb!--Soap!--My uniform is torn!--A needle!--A ribbon!--Lend your
mirror!--My cuffs!--Your curling-iron!--A razor!. . .
ROXANE (to C... | 954 | act 4, scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10 | 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 ... | null | 72 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_7_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 7 | act 4, scene 7 | null | {"name": "Act 4, scene 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10", "summary": "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... | The same. De Guiche.
DE GUICHE:
It smells good here.
A CADET (humming):
Lo! Lo-lo!
DE GUICHE (looking at him):
What is the matter?--You are very red.
THE CADET:
The matter?--Nothing!--'Tis my blood--boiling at the thought of the coming
battle!
ANOTHER:
Poum, poum--poum. . .
DE GUICHE (turning round):
... | 758 | Act 4, scene 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10 | 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... | null | 124 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_7_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 8 | act 4, scene 8 | null | {"name": "Act 4, scene 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10", "summary": "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, sh... | Roxane, Christian. In the distance cadets coming and going. Carbon and De
Guiche give orders.
ROXANE (running up to Christian):
Ah, Christian, at last!. . .
CHRISTIAN (taking her hands):
Now tell me why--
Why, by these fearful paths so perilous--
Across these ranks of ribald soldiery,
You have come?
ROXA... | 728 | Act 4, scene 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10 | 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... | null | 114 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_7_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 9 | act 4, scene 9 | null | {"name": "Act 4, scene 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10", "summary": "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 ad... | Christian, Cyrano. At back Roxane talking to Carbon and some cadets.
CHRISTIAN (calling toward Cyrano's tent):
Cyrano!
CYRANO (reappearing, fully armed):
What? Why so pale?
CHRISTIAN:
She does not love me!
CYRANO:
What?
CHRISTIAN:
'Tis you she loves!
CYRANO:
No!
CHRISTIAN:
--For she loves me only... | 357 | Act 4, scene 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10 | 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... | null | 99 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_7_part_5.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 4.scene 10 | act 4, scene 10 | null | {"name": "Act 4, scene 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10", "summary": "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 ... | Roxane, Cyrano. Then Le Bret, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, Ragueneau,
De Guiche, etc.
ROXANE:
Important, how?
CYRANO (in despair. to Roxane):
He's gone! 'Tis naught!--Oh, you know how he sees
Importance in a trifle!
ROXANE (warmly):
Did he doubt
Of what I said?--Ah, yes, I saw he doubted!
CYRANO... | 1,120 | Act 4, scene 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act4-scenes6-10 | 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... | of Act 4, scenes 6-10. The play's action regarding Cyrano and Christian's collaboration comes to a climax in this section. This escalating internal conflict is paralleled by the external conflict of the battle between the French and the Spanish. De Guiche rapidly metamorphoses from villain to sympathetic character, eve... | 318 | 333 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_8_part_1.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 5.scene 1 | act 5, scene 1 | null | {"name": "act 5, scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6", "summary": "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 ... | Mother Marguerite, Sister Martha, Sister Claire, other sisters.
SISTER MARTHA (to Mother Marguerite):
Sister Claire glanced in the mirror, once--nay, twice, to see if her coif
suited.
MOTHER MARGUERITE (to Sister Claire):
'Tis not well.
SISTER CLAIRE:
But I saw Sister Martha take a plum
Out of the tart.
MOT... | 456 | act 5, scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6 | 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... | null | 74 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_8_part_2.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 5.scene 2 | act 5, scene 2 | null | {"name": "Act 5, scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6", "summary": "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 i... | Roxane; the Duke de Grammont, formerly Count de Guiche. Then Le Bret and
Ragueneau.
THE DUKE:
And you stay here still--ever vainly fair,
Ever in weeds?
ROXANE:
Ever.
THE DUKE:
Still faithful?
ROXANE:
Still.
THE DUKE (after a pause):
Am I forgiven?
ROXANE:
Ay, since I am here.
(Another pause.)
THE... | 802 | Act 5, scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6 | 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... | null | 246 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_8_part_3.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 5.scene 3 | act 5, scene 3 | null | {"name": "Act 5, scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6", "summary": "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 dro... | Le Bret, Ragueneau.
RAGUENEAU:
Since you are here, 'tis best she should not know!
I was going to your friend just now--was but
A few steps from the house, when I saw him
Go out. I hurried to him. Saw him turn
The corner. . .suddenly, from out a window
Where he was passing--was it chance?. . .may be!
A ... | 265 | Act 5, scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6 | 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 | null | 57 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_8_part_4.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 5.scene 4 | act 5, scene 4 | null | {"name": "Act 5, scene 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6", "summary": "Roxane sits doing her needlework and wonders why Cyrano is late for his usual visit", "analysis": ""} | Roxane alone. Two sisters, for a moment.
ROXANE:
Ah! what a beauty in September's close!
My sorrow's eased. April's joy dazzled it,
But autumn wins it with her dying calm.
(She seats herself at the embroidery frame. Two sisters come out of the
house, and bring a large armchair under the tree):
There comes t... | 171 | Act 5, scene 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6 | Roxane sits doing her needlework and wonders why Cyrano is late for his usual visit | null | 15 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_8_part_5.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 5.scene 5 | act 5, scene 5 | null | {"name": "Act 5, scene 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6", "summary": "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 ... | Roxane, Cyrano and, for a moment, Sister Martha.
ROXANE (without turning round):
What was I saying?. . .
(She embroiders. Cyrano, very pale, his hat pulled down over his eyes,
appears. The sister who had announced him retires. He descends the steps
slowly, with a visible difficulty in holding himself upright, bea... | 1,444 | Act 5, scene 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6 | 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... | null | 235 | 1 |
1,254 | true | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1254-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Cyrano de Bergerac/section_8_part_6.txt | Cyrano de Bergerac.act 5.scene 6 | act 5, scene 6 | null | {"name": "Act 5, scene 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6", "summary": "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 ... | The same. Le Bret and Ragueneau.
LE BRET:
What madness! Here? I knew it well!
CYRANO (smiling and sitting up):
What now?
LE BRET:
He has brought his death by coming, Madame.
ROXANE:
God!
Ah, then! that faintness of a moment since. . .?
CYRANO:
Why, true! It interrupted the 'Gazette:'
. . .Saturda... | 1,175 | Act 5, scene 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210212220419/https://www.novelguide.com/cyrano-de-bergerac/summaries/act5-scenes1-6 | 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... | of Act 5, scenes 1-6. The last act of the play jumps forward in time fifteen years, to resolve the plotlines that still involve the main characters after Christian's death. The time of year and the time of day are symbolic of Cyrano's approaching death. The mood of this act, while it retains elements of comedy, comme... | 282 | 391 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_1_chapters_1_to_14.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_0_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 1.chapters 1-14 | volume 1, letter 1-14 | null | {"name": "Volume I, Letter I - Volume I, Letter XIV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-i-letter-i--volume-i-letter-xiv", "summary": "The novel is comprised of letters in three volumes.... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER 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
a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed it is
sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver
of evil tidings is most to be piti... | 15,110 | Volume I, Letter I - Volume I, Letter XIV | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-i-letter-i--volume-i-letter-xiv | 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... | Most of this novel is concerned with the marked contrast between Evelina's sweet simplicity and the confusing world of manners that she encounters. Most of the novel's themes - class, gender, civility - manifest out of this conflict. Evelina is painted almost right away as a pastoral angel. Certainly, this is clear in ... | 1,744 | 1,030 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_1_chapters_15_to_21.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_1_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 1.chapters 15-21 | volume 1, letter 15-21 | null | {"name": "Volume I, Letter XV - Volume I, Letter XXI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-i-letter-xv--volume-i-letter-xxi", "summary": "Mr. Villars writes to Evelina that he is distress... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER XV MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA
Berry Hill, April 16.
IN the belief and hope that my Evelina would, ere now, have bid adieu
to London, I had intended to have deferred writing, till I heard
of her return to Howard Grove; but the letter I have this moment
received, with intelligence of Madame Duval's arriv... | 17,249 | Volume I, Letter XV - Volume I, Letter XXI | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-i-letter-xv--volume-i-letter-xxi | 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 ... | Evelina continues to brave the treacherous London scene, encountering foppish and ill-bred men, her coarse kinsmen, and confusing attentions from Lord Orville. Throughout the novel, Evelina evinces an uneasiness and anxiety that is acute and relatively consistent. To a large extent, this is due to her ignorance of city... | 1,540 | 769 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_1_chapters_22_to_31.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_2_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 1.chapters 22-31 | volume 1, letter 22-31 | null | {"name": "Volume I, Letter XXII - Volume I, Letter XXXI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-i-letter-xxii--volume-i-letter-xxxi", "summary": "Evelina continues to write to Mr. Villars o... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER XXII EVELINA IN CONTINUATION
Monday Morning, April 18.
MRS. MIRVAN has just communicated to me an anecdote concerning Lord
Orville, which has much surprised, half pleased, and half pained me.
While they were sitting together during the opera, he told her that
he had been greatly concerned at the im... | 11,408 | Volume I, Letter XXII - Volume I, Letter XXXI | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-i-letter-xxii--volume-i-letter-xxxi | 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... | Evelina continues to encounter a world in which social recognition is ironically disconnected from true human value. Lord Merton, though yet unnamed, is a total cad, more forward than anyone has yet been with her, and yet his name is more valuable than even Lord Orville's. Sir Clement remains a threat to her, mostly be... | 827 | 850 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_2_chapters_1_to_11.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_3_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 2.chapters 1-11 | volume 2, letter 1-11 | null | {"name": "Volume II, Letter I - Volume II, Letter XI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-ii-letter-i--volume-ii-letter-xi", "summary": "Evelina continues to write to Mr. Villars of her ... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER 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;
and the necessity I have been under of concealing the uneasiness of
my mind, has made me exert myself so effectually, that I even think
it is really diminished; o... | 16,534 | Volume II, Letter I - Volume II, Letter XI | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-ii-letter-i--volume-ii-letter-xi | 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... | Burney's perspective as a woman grows more pronounced as the novel continues. In this set of letters, several incidents highlight her understanding of women as constantly in danger from male aggression. With the robbery prank, Captain Mirvan exceeds his previous torture of Madame Duval. It is an altogether strange and... | 1,319 | 893 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_2_chapters_12_to_19.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_4_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 2.chapters 12-19 | volume 2, letter 12-19 | null | {"name": "Volume II, Letter XII -Volume II, Letter XIX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-ii-letter-xii-volume-ii-letter-xix", "summary": "Evelina continues her letters to Mr. Villars.... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER XLIII EVELINA IN CONTINUATION
June 10th
THIS morning Mr. Smith called,
on purpose, he said, to offer me a ticket for the next Hampstead
assembly. I thanked him, but desired to be excused accepting it: he
would not, however, be denied, nor answered; and, in a manner both
vehement and free, pressed and ... | 16,325 | Volume II, Letter XII -Volume II, Letter XIX | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-ii-letter-xii-volume-ii-letter-xix | 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, ... | The concept of marriage becomes more prominent in this set of letters. This is to be expected, considering how inextricably linked the theme was to most 18th century literature written by and about women. Frances Burney had rejected a proposal when she was very young, and this novel, written a year later, was in many w... | 1,316 | 865 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_2_chapters_20_to_30.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_5_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 2.chapters 20-30 | volume 2, letter 20-30 | null | {"name": "Volume II, Letter XX - Volume II, Letter XXX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-ii-letter-xx--volume-ii-letter-xxx", "summary": "Evelina writes to Mr. Villars, including in h... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER LI. EVELINA IN CONTINUATION.
I HAVE just received a most affecting letter from Mr. Macartney. I
will inclose it, my dear Sir, for your perusal. More than ever have
I cause to rejoice that I was able to assist him. Mr. Macartney to
Miss Anville.
Madam,
IMPRESSED with deepest, the most heartfelt sen... | 16,097 | Volume II, Letter XX - Volume II, Letter XXX | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-ii-letter-xx--volume-ii-letter-xxx | 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... | As Evelina continues to narrate her travels through London, she provides not only an insightful look at this 18th century metropolis for modern readers, but also further example of the limitations a woman faced at that time. Her group undertakes an excursion to Marybone-gardens, which was in west London, and had been o... | 1,189 | 707 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_3_chapters_1_to_5.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_6_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 3.chapters 1-5 | volume 3, letter 1-5 | null | {"name": "Volume III, Letter I - Volume III, Letter V", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-iii-letter-i--volume-iii-letter-v", "summary": "Evelina writes to Mr. Villars. Mrs. Selwyn and ... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER LXII. EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS.
Bristol Hotwells, Sept. 12th.
THE first fortnight that I passed here was so quiet, so serene, that
it gave me reason to expect a settled calm during my stay; but if I
may now judge of the time to come, by the present state of my mind,
the calm will be succeede... | 12,375 | Volume III, Letter I - Volume III, Letter V | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-iii-letter-i--volume-iii-letter-v | 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 ... | In these letters, Evelina's 'well-bred' companions reveal just as much affectation, coarseness, insensibility, and judgmental attitudes as the Branghtons did. Lady Louisa, Lord Orville's sister, adopts an affected attitude that is most unpleasant. It actually enforces the then-contemporary notion that women were prone ... | 1,072 | 657 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_3_chapters_6_to_15.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_7_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 3.chapters 6-15 | volume 3, letter 6-15 | null | {"name": "Volume III, Letter VI - Volume III, Letter XV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-iii-letter-vi--volume-iii-letter-xv", "summary": "Mr. Villars writes to Evelina and confesses... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER LXVII. MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA.
Berry Hill, Sept. 28th.
DEAD to the world, and equally insensible to its pleasures or its
pains, I long since bad adieu to all joy, and defiance to all sorrow,
but what should spring from my Evelina,-sole source, to me, of all
earthly felicity. How strange, then, is ... | 16,887 | Volume III, Letter VI - Volume III, Letter XV | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-iii-letter-vi--volume-iii-letter-xv | 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... | This set of letters presents examples of the rich behaving very, very badly. Lord Merton, in particular, is a dissolute and lascivious newly-made nobleman who enjoys exploiting and mocking those around him, simply to entertain himself. He does not care about his reputation because he knows his fortune will be secured w... | 1,409 | 653 |
6,053 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/6053-chapters/volume_3_chapters_16_to_23.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Evelina/section_8_part_0.txt | Evelina.volume 3.chapters 16-23 | volume 3, letter 16-23 | null | {"name": "Volume III, Letter XVI - Volume III, Letter XXIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-iii-letter-xvi--volume-iii-letter-xxiii", "summary": "Evelina continues to write to Mr. V... | <CHAPTER>
LETTER LXXVII. EVELINA IN CONTINUATION.
Clifton, Oct. 7th.
YOU will see, my dear Sir, that I was mistaken in supposing I should
write no more from this place, where my residence now seems more
uncertain than ever.
This morning, during breakfast, Lord Orville took an opportunity to
beg me, in a low voice,... | 18,383 | Volume III, Letter XVI - Volume III, Letter XXIII | https://web.archive.org/web/20201126171702/https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-the-world/study-guide/summary-volume-iii-letter-xvi--volume-iii-letter-xxiii | 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... | In this last set of letters, it becomes clear that Evelina has successfully navigated the perilous waters of the London social scene, reclaiming her birthright and marrying an extremely eligible man. Moreover, she has done so while retaining her most prized possession - her innocence. This is the novel's primary dramat... | 1,208 | 796 |
1,134 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/act_1.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Winter's Tale/section_0_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 1.scene 1-scene 2 | act 1 | null | {"name": "Act 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-1", "summary": "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 ... | Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS
ARCHIDAMUS. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on
the
like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall
see,
as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your
Sicilia.
CAMILLO. I think this coming summer th... | 5,962 | Act 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-1 | 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... | Scene One establishes characters and situation. We learn that the kings of Sicilia and Bohemia have been good friends since childhood, and that Sicilia has a young prince who shows great promise. Although Archidamus is not particularly important as a character, Camillo is one of the play's most important characters. Fr... | 635 | 1,050 |
1,134 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/act_2.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Winter's Tale/section_1_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 2.scene 1-scene 3 | act 2 | null | {"name": "Act 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-2", "summary": "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 ente... | 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, ... | 5,909 | Act 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-2 | 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... | Act 2 opens with the idyllic scene of the prince playing with his mother and the ladies-in-waiting. The charm and happiness of the moment makes the contrast with the jealousy of Leontes all the more jarring. Shakespeare is giving us a glimpse of the normal pattern of their family life, which invites greater sympathy fo... | 738 | 578 |
1,134 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/act_3.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Winter's Tale/section_2_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 3.scene 1-scene 3 | act 3 | null | {"name": "Act 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-3", "summary": "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 ... | Sicilia. On the road to the Capital
Enter CLEOMENES and DION
CLEOMENES. The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,
Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
The common praise it bears.
DION. I shall report,
For most it caught me, the celestial habits-
Methinks I so should term them- and the re... | 4,916 | Act 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-3 | 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... | We see in the exchange between Cleomenes and Dion that the people of Sicilia have a great deal of respect and love for Queen Hermione. When put on trial, she is an exemplar of a specific kind of strength. Although the setting is pagan, her forbearance and resolve follow Christian models of virtue, particularly passive ... | 643 | 1,349 |
1,134 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/act_4.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Winter's Tale/section_3_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 4.scene 1-scene 4 | act 4 | null | {"name": "Act 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-4", "summary": "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 ... | Enter TIME, the CHORUS
TIME. I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
To me or my swift passage that I slide
O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried
O... | 12,763 | Act 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-4 | 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... | The shift in tone and focus between Act 2 and Act 3 is one of the most dramatic transitions in Shakespeare. Suddenly, the tragic momentum set up by Leontes' irrational jealousy and tyrannical behavior is left behind; at the request of the chorus, Father Time, we leave the world of Sicilia and enter the pastoral world o... | 1,187 | 667 |
1,134 | true | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/act_5.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/The Winter's Tale/section_4_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 5.scene 1-scene 3 | act 5 | null | {"name": "Act 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-5", "summary": "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. Th... |
ACT V. SCENE I.
Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and OTHERS
CLEOMENES. Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd
A saint-like sorrow. No fault could you make
Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down
More penitence than done trespass. At the last,
Do ... | 6,771 | Act 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210411083408/https://www.gradesaver.com/the-winters-tale/study-guide/summary-act-5 | 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... | We return in the final act to the grieving court of Sicilia, still sorrowful for the queen's death and anxious about the stability of their kingdom, which remains without an heir. Act 5 restores stability and solves the problems of both kings without any revolution. The queen and daughter Leontes lost return to him mir... | 867 | 868 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/1.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_0_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 1.scene 1 | scene 1 | null | {"name": "Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-i-scene-1", "summary": "Archidamus, a lord of Bohemia, tells Camillo, a lord of Sicilia, that should he ever visit Bohemia that he would find great differences betwee... | Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS
ARCHIDAMUS. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on
the
like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall
see,
as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your
Sicilia.
CAMILLO. I think this coming summer th... | 510 | Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-i-scene-1 | 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... | The conversation between Archidamus and Camillo establishes the two main settings of the play and introduces the theme of deep and lasting friendship between the two kings. We can also infer that Leontes possesses natural riches far beyond those of Polixenes . The fact that no single main character appears in this sce... | 241 | 271 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/2.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_1_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 1.scene 2 | scene 2 | null | {"name": "Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-i-scene-2", "summary": "Leontes, his wife Hermione, Polixenes, Camillo, and a bevy of lords stroll quietly on stage. Polixenes announces that after nine months away f... | Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, CAMILLO, and
ATTENDANTS
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 w... | 5,453 | Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-i-scene-2 | 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... | As hinted by Archidamus in the previous scene, nothing that is real in this world is altering the present situation. Incoherence now even afflicts Leontes: Then 'tis very credent Thou may'st co-join with something; and thou dost, And that beyond commission, and I find it, And that to the infection of my brains And hard... | 851 | 968 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/3.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_2_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 2.scene 1 | scene 1 | null | {"name": "Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-1", "summary": "Although Hermione and Mamillius enter together, Hermione immediately turns to her ladies-in-waiting and asks them to take the boy. Mamillius ... | 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, ... | 2,485 | Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-1 | 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 ... | This act's structure is similar to that of Act I. It opens with a sleepy, peaceful pace -- which Leontes will soon shatter. Hermione requests a tale from her son, and Mamillius suggests a sad tale as "best for winter." A "winter's tale" means a story to pass the long evening hours of winter, especially a story that its... | 1,011 | 1,111 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/4.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_3_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 2.scene 2 | scene 2 | null | {"name": "Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-2", "summary": "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... | Sicilia. A prison
Enter PAULINA, a GENTLEMAN, and ATTENDANTS
PAULINA. The keeper of the prison- call to him;
Let him have knowledge who I am. Exit GENTLEMAN
Good lady!
No court in Europe is too good for thee;
What dost thou then in prison?
Re-enter GENTLEMAN with the G... | 856 | Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-2 | 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... | Compared to Hermione's gentle, obedient reaction to Leontes' tyranny, Paulina's rage is graphically gathering as she prepares to confront her king. Obviously she has no intention of using the diplomatic ploys of Camillo or the other advisers; she will voice only her own absolute outrage at the mistreatment of the innoc... | 292 | 226 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/5.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_4_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 2.scene 3 | scene 3 | null | {"name": "Scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-3", "summary": "Leontes enters with a group of lords and servants -- captives, really, who must listen to his ravings. He complains, first, that his inabilit... | 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 ... | 2,570 | Scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-ii-scene-3 | 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... | Conflict never abates in this scene. Tensions build as everyone on stage contributes to the many attempts to resolve the complications. Leontes, however, continues to speak for illusion, while all the others speak for reality. Leontes, the only character blinded by illusion, wants to throw Hermione, Paulina, and the ba... | 814 | 483 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/6.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_5_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 3.scene 1 | scene 1 | null | {"name": "Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iii-scene-1", "summary": "Walking through the streets of a Sicilian town, Cleomenes and Dion exchange their impressions of the general appearance and, especially, the... | Sicilia. On the road to the Capital
Enter CLEOMENES and DION
CLEOMENES. The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,
Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
The common praise it bears.
DION. I shall report,
For most it caught me, the celestial habits-
Methinks I so should term them- and the re... | 282 | Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iii-scene-1 | 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... | At first glance, this brief scene seems to serve only as extraneous travelogue. It serves this purpose, but more important, it adds to the dramatic tension as preparations are being made for Hermione's trial. By verifying the "religious" authenticity of their visit to Delphos and by anticipating the divine perception o... | 96 | 90 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/7.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_6_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 3.scene 2 | scene 2 | null | {"name": "Scene 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iii-scene-2", "summary": "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... | Sicilia. A court of justice
Enter LEONTES, LORDS, and OFFICERS
LEONTES. This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,
Even pushes 'gainst our heart- the party tried,
The daughter of a king, our wife, and one
Of us too much belov'd. Let us be clear'd
Of being tyrannous, since we so openly
Proce... | 2,906 | Scene 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iii-scene-2 | 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... | In this scene, Leontes speaks of the contrasts between his reputation for tyranny and Hermione's reputation for noble innocence. Although he claims that he wants the guilt or innocence of Hermione to be proven, obviously the only way that Leontes can be found innocent of the accusations of tyranny would be to prove Her... | 1,250 | 589 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/8.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_7_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 3.scene 3 | scene 3 | null | {"name": "Scene 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iii-scene-3", "summary": "Antigonus, who is carrying the hapless royal infant, asks his mariner if they have landed upon \"the deserts of Bohemia.\" The mariner confi... | Bohemia. The sea-coast
Enter ANTIGONUS with the CHILD, and a MARINER
ANTIGONUS. Thou art perfect then our ship hath touch'd upon
The deserts of Bohemia?
MARINER. Ay, my lord, and fear
We have landed in ill time; the skies look grimly
And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
The heavens wit... | 1,730 | Scene 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iii-scene-3 | 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... | This scene is structured on irony and laced with sardonic humor. Dramatic irony is first evident when Antigonus swears to faithfully carry out the king's order to abandon the baby; the audience, you should remember, knows full well that Leontes has now repented of his tyranny. There is additional irony here because of ... | 804 | 710 |
1,134 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1134-chapters/9.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Winter's Tale/section_8_part_0.txt | The Winter's Tale.act 4.scene 1 | scene 1 | null | {"name": "Scene 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iv-scene-1", "summary": "A Chorus symbolizing Time announces that sixteen years have passed. During those years, Leontes has replaced his jealousy with seclusion, whi... | Enter TIME, the CHORUS
TIME. I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
To me or my swift passage that I slide
O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried
O... | 387 | Scene 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201130173005/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/w/the-winters-tale/summary-and-analysis/act-iv-scene-1 | 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. | As in ancient Greek plays, a Chorus substitutes narrative for dramatic action. In addition to preparing the audience for an adult Florizel and Perdita, when next we see them, the narrative transcends the focus from the actions of Leontes to the actions of the Bohemian cast of characters. | 31 | 48 |
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