Victor Hugo: Four Plays: Marion de Lorme; Hernani; Lucretia Borgia; Ruy Blas

by Victor Hugo, William D. Howarth (Translator), John Golder (Translator), Richard Hand (Translator)

Overview

Four previously untranslated plays for the World Classics series

Here are four characteristic and hugely important dramas by one of the most famous and influential European writers of the last two hundred years, translated into English for the first time, and in highly playable versions. An essential collection for students of both French and Drama

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413772695
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/08/2007
Series:	World Classics
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Victor Hugo (1807-1885)was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and the most important of the French Romantic writers. He began to write at a very young age and wrote over fifty novels and plays; including Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Claude Schumacher is an author and translator - his works include: Staging the Holocaust and Artaud on Theatre.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18

Table of Contents

Hernani; Marion De Lorme; Lucrece Borgia; Ruy Blas