Hernani

Name: Hernani
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Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9782080494924

Victor Hugo

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En imposant Hernani, chef-d'oeuvre du drame romantique, à la Comédie-Française, temple du classicisme, Victor Hugo fut à l'origine de l'une des plus célèbres batailles de l'histoire littéraire. « Tissu d'extravagances », fruit d'un « esprit humain affranchi de toute règle et de toute bienséance », selon la censure, Hernani marquait l'avènement d'un théâtre mariant le sublime au trivial et investi par le lyrisme, l'épique et la politique.
Drame historique retraçant l'accession à l'Empire de Charles Quint, comédie d'intrigue mettant en scène un roi, un vieillard et un bandit épris de la même femme, tragédie héroïque sous-tendue par la loi de l'honneur aristocratique, Hernani incarne le mélange des genres. Consacrant le triomphe de l'avant-garde artistique, la création de cette pièce flamboyante, au printemps 1830, entérinait la révolution française du goût.

DOSSIER
o La réception de l'oeuvre
o Fortune d'Hernani à la scène
o Le vers hugolien
o Histoire et politique dans Hernani.

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery. Although he was a committed royalist when young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, serving in politics as both deputy and senator. His work touched upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. His opposition to absolutism, and his literary stature, established him as a national hero. Hugo died on 22 May 1885, aged 83. He was given a state funeral in the Panthéon of Paris, which was attended by over two million people, the largest in French history.