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Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris – Victor Hugo ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, also known as ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ is the best-known novel of French romanticist Victor Hugo. The story about the gypsy Esmeralda, who captures the hearts of Captain Phoebus, Pierre Gringoire, the bell-ringer Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo is an all-time classic and a […]
Hans of Iceland
Hans of Iceland – Victor Hugo Since the awful times in which Monk Lewis used to chill the blood of the reading public, and revived in persons of mature age the terrors‘ of infancy, there was hardly a romance so horrible, and, at the same time, so well written, as Hans of Iceland. The author […]
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell – Victor Hugo ‘Oliver Cromwell’ was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo’s gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell’s internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. The preface is nowadays considered as […]
Torquemada
Torquemada – Victor Hugo Torquemada, a drama about the Spanish inquisition, is one of the greatest masterpieces of the master poet of the 19th century. The construction of this tragedy is absolutely original and unique: free and full of change as the wildest and loosest and roughest of dramatic structures ever flung together, and left […]
Amy Robsart
Amy Robsart – Victor Hugo In 1828 Victor Hugo had just completed Cromwell, and was about to write Manon de Lorme. Cromwell was not his first drama; several years earlier he had written one: Amy Robsart. Six years had passed, and M. Hugo had entirely forgotten his first play, when the younger of his two […]
The Burgraves
The Burgraves – Victor Hugo The fundamental conception of the drama “The Burgraves” is a dramatic struggle between two antithetical forces: fatality attempting to impose punishment on a degraded race and providence striving to pardon and to rehabilitate. The poet has embodied the force of fatality in an old slave named Guanhumara, a sorceress endowed […]
The Twins
The Twins – Victor Hugo In 1838 Hugo began a play entitled Les Jumeaux (The Twins), but halfway through the third act he relinquished it, and the drama remained unfinished. It was finally published in 1889, as a fragment, after his death. The MS. was broken off with the words, „Interrompu le 28 Aout par […]
Mary Tudor
Mary Tudor – Victor Hugo ‘Mary Tudor’ is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1833. The historical work portrays the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I. of England. The Queen has Fabiani thrown in the tower until his death penalty and is unable […]
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua – Victor Hugo ‘Angelo, Tyrant of Padua’ is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1835. The historical work portrays the chief magistrate of the Italian city Padua, Angelo. Format: Paperback Angelo, Tyrant of Padua. ISBN: 9783849677251. Available at amazon.com and other venues. The Writings of […]
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia – Victor Hugo Lucrezia Borgia’ is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1833. The historical work portrays the Renaissance-era Italian aristocrat Lucrezia Borgia. The libretto of Donizetti’s opera ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ was based on Hugo’s play. Format: Paperback Lucrezia Borgia. ISBN: 9783849677244. Available at amazon.com and other venues. […]