The first television production of Cyrano to use Anthony Burgess' translation, in which Cyrano's list of insults ends with "Oh, that this too, too solid nose would melt," a parody of "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt," from "Hamlet". The translation had already premiered as far back as 1970, and had been used in the 1973 flop musical "Cyrano", starring Christopher Plummer.
Sir Derek Jacobi appeared in Hamlet (1996) along with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Gérard Depardieu, both of whom have also played Cyrano.