Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Plays of Edmond Rostand, Vol. 1
If Kipling had written a play called The Lion, and its scene were laid in his own home county of England, people would, I think, have inferred a patriotic meaning. Yet when Rostand, having written Cyrano of Bergerac and The Eaglet, completed the triology with Chanticleer, the critics, heedless of the fact that the Cock is the emblem of France, acclaimed it as a society satire, and disregarded its larger significance as a patriotic parable.
The reader's enjoyment of the play will be enhanced by careful observation of the lines that introduce the leading characters. Our attention is directed to The Old Hen in the Basket as that ancient France that is the mother of France, the wise old mother whose one concern is the growth of her splendid Cock: A Gascon Hen, Pau is her native place. Patou is Peasant France.
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