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Ruy Blas
Ruy Blas – Victor Hugo Ruy Blas has held the stage better than any other of his dramas and has been popular in America. Here Hugo’s dramatic theory of contrast of grave and gay, rapid alternation of tragic and grotesque, is pushed to its utmost verge. The scene is Madrid; the time 1699. Don Salluste […]
Le Roi s’amuse
Le Roi s’amuse – Victor Hugo Le roi s’amuse, best translated as ‘The King Amuses Himself’, is a play in five acts. It is set in Paris in the 1520s and the plot was used for Verdi’s 1851 opera Rigoletto. The main person of the play is Triboulet, a witty court jester, through whose words […]
Marion de Lorme
Marion de Lorme – Victor Hugo Marion De Lorme the heroine, and Didier the hero, are simple figures, and more like those to be found in the ‚Hernani.‘ Didier is another brother of the Giaour, — mysterious, melancholic, misanthropic. Like Hernani, he is a wanderer on the face of the earth, and has great capacity […]
Esmeralda
Esmeralda – Victor Hugo Victor Hugo wrote the dramatic libretto for the opera “La Esmeralda” in 1836. Although the premiere of the opera was a failure, the libretto, based on Hugo’s novel ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’, is still worth a read. Format: Paperback Esmeralda. ISBN: 9783849677596. Available at amazon.com and other venues. The Writings […]
Hernani
Hernani – Victor Hugo The drama ‘Hernani’ tells the story of Doña Sol, the sun of Madrid, who is loved by Don Carlos, king of Spain, by the old duke, Ruy Gomez, and by Hernani, leader of the revolutionists, upon whose head a price is set. Doña Sol loves only Hernani; she receives him secretly […]