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Since the "Quarrel about the Cid," no play has so completely revolutionized French dramatic art as Victor Hugo's Hernani. Its first representation marks an epoch in the history of the French theatre, and for this reason none is better adapted to study both of the merits and faults of the Romantic movement in France.This edition is in French, for students of that language, with an extensive introduction and notes by John E. Matzke, who at the time of original publication in 1891, had been Professor of Romanic Languages at Stanford University.Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play Cromwell (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of literature. Hugo developed his own version of the historical novel, combining concrete, historical details with vivid, melodramatic, even feverish imagination. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. Victor Hugo was one of the greatest personalities of French literature. Though not without the faults and eccentricities which frequently characterize great geniuses, he never entered any field of literature without excelling in it. The novel, the lyric, the drama, criticism, all fell from his facile pen without apparent effort.

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9780898756180

ISBN-10

0898756189

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0.55 Pounds

Dimensions

5.25 x 0.50 x 7.00 In

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$22.50

Format

Paperback

Pages

232 pages

Publisher

Univ Pr of the Pacific

Published On

2001-12-01



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