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Edmond Rostand
Lewisohn, Ludwig | December 21, 1918 issue

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This article focuses on playwright Edmond Rostand, who died on December 2. He approaches reality, neither to imitate nor to interpret it, but makes his escape into the region of the recurrent day--dreams and idealisms of the race. His landscapes, under whatever name, have the glow of a golden age in which the sea never darkens and the sky is always cloudless. His position in contemporary literature, which must be defined largely in negative terms, is thus already clear. The tradition to which Rostand allied himself was that of the romantics; the theatre which he sought to revive and to continue was that of eighteen hundred and thirty. His kinship with some of the romantic playwrights is, of course,slight.

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ROSTAND, Edmond; DRAMATISTS; REALISM; LITERATURE, Modern; THEATER; PERFORMING arts
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