Incomplete draft of Burgess's translation and adaptation (for the stage) of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac.

Scope and Content

The draft consists of two pages from Act 1 and thirteen pages from Act 4 only. The original typescript (of which this is a photocopy) included handwritten corrections by Burgess.

For an alternative (complete) draft (as published by Hutchinson in 1985), see AB/ARCH/A/BER/5. For drafts of the 1971 edition of the text (as published by Knopf), see AB/ARCH/A/BER/1 and AB/ARCH/A/BER/2.

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