Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) today announced the cast for their next REVELATION READING, Victor Hugo'sHernani, translated by John Strand ...

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It was at the La Comédie-Française where Hugo brought his controversial new play, “Hernani,” that became a spark plug for Paris’s greater societal and political tensions Wiki Commons/Frank ...

Victor Hugo with friends during his exile to Guernsey Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS. ... Some, like a sketch titled "Gavroche à 11 ans" (Gavroche at 11 years old), link to his writing.

In the preface to his unperformed 1827 play Cromwell, the young Victor Hugo laid down a challenge to prevailing artistic orthodoxies: “There are no rules, or models,” he declared.In post-Napoleonic ...

His play Hernani is published in this same year, took a large step towards a more realistic theatre and made him a rich man. 1831 Hugo's next book, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame ...