Act Three opens up with Ragueneau having a conversation with Duenna about his wife Lise running away with a Musketeer. Soon after Duenna calls Roxanne into the room and starts bragging about Christian’s poetic abilities and even rehearses some of Christian’s poems back to Cyrano. De Guiche then enters to tell Roxanne that he is going off to war while Roxanne begs him not to go. When Cyrano finally leaves he goes off to find Christian to help him prepare for his date with Roxanne, but the date goes bad and Roxanne asks Christian to leave. Christian then goes back to ask Cyrano for help. Christian then returns with Cyrano’s guidance and once again Christian was able to knock Roxanne off her feet with his poetry thanks to Cyrano. Minutes later the monk arrives with a letter to Roxanne that reads her and Christian have to get married tonight. As Roxanne and Christian are getting married Cyrano distracts De Guiche from interrupting by telling De Guiche that he has fallen from the moon. As Act Three ends Roxanne and Christian are married. However, Christian now has to go fight in the war and leave Roxanne.
Act Three teaches us that Cyrano still has feelings for Roxanne. Cyrano makes it obvious because when Roxanne was describing the man she loved, Cyrano clearly thought it was him and got his hopes up. Later Roxanne says she loves Christian and Cyrano seemed a little disappointed telling by his reaction. However, as the Act continues Cyrano handles it well knowing that in reality Roxanne really likes him because he is the one writing all the poems Christian gives to Roxanne.
One new word I found in the reading was demisemiquaver. (pg 89) Demisemiquaver is defined as a thirty-second note. The word was used by Cyrano while giving an order to a boy and saying, “A demisemiquaver, stupid boy!”
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