By Victor Hugo
En imposant Hernani, chef-d'oeuvre du drame romantique, à los angeles 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 l. a. censure. Hernani marquait l'avènement d'un théâtre mariant le chic au trivial et investi par le lyrisme, l'épique et l. a. 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 l. a. même femme, tragédie héroïque sous-tendue par l. a. loi de l'honneur aristocratique, Hernani incarne le mélange des genres. Consacrant le triomphe de l'avant-garde artistique, los angeles création de cette pièce flamboyante, au printemps 1830, entérinait l. a. révolution française du goût.
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Mter a few weeks of tantalizing silence, Adelaide finally wrote to her mother in Brussels to reassure her about marital propriety. May 26, 1815. Very Dear Mother-It is with the greatest pleasure in the world that I inform you that I am married to Booth since the 8th of May, and am the happiest of women. He was engaged at the Theatre Royal of London for five weeks, but does not commence before September next, consequently he takes a place meanwhile at another theatre, but this appointment does not suit him, and I do not wish to leave his fatller.
For Booth, this role was Megrim in the younger George Colman's play, The Blue Devils. Jrim) at Brussels, was attended with great success, and has been represented to us as a finished effort. Mr. Samson Penley ... was the 'great creature' of that company,; but, after that gentleman, Mr. "38 BOOtll'S role as a suicidal, jaded traveler ("Russia's too cold, Italy's too hot, Holland's too dull, France is too gay") augured some of the dark and villainous roles in which he would later succeed. While in Brussels, Boodl witnessed the public guillotining of three prisoners, including M.
Meanwhile, Booth and Adelaide were married on 8 May 1815 at St. George's of Bloomsbury, a parish church just around the corner from Queen Street. 3 Richard Booth surely attended his only surviving son's wedding; certainly he must have strenuously encouraged the hasty ceremony. Mter a few weeks of tantalizing silence, Adelaide finally wrote to her mother in Brussels to reassure her about marital propriety. May 26, 1815. Very Dear Mother-It is with the greatest pleasure in the world that I inform you that I am married to Booth since the 8th of May, and am the happiest of women.