by Victor Hugo · POCKET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266053501
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«Ruy Blas» is the five-act play by Victor Hugo, published by Pocket in paperback (283 pages, in French).
In seventeenth-century Spain, the lackey Ruy Blas, in love with the queen, is used by his master, the Marquis don Salluste, who passes him off as the nobleman don César to seduce her. While the ministers corrupt the kingdom, the queen falls in love with the false aristocrat, whom she believes to be upright. The drama interweaves love, revenge, justice and class struggle.
The play is written in alexandrines. The Pocket Classiques edition includes the complete text, introduction and commentary by Élisabeth Charbonnier, bibliography, staging and filmography.
Suitable for students of French literature and for fans of nineteenth-century Romantic theatre.
French novelist, poet and dramatist, leading figure of Romanticism and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
