Three of Hugo’s stage works in English: Mary Tudor, set in London in 1553, where the queen’s Italian favourite Fabiani plays with the lives of a working man and the girl he loves; Marion de Lorme, a courtesan’s love story under the shadow of Cardinal Richelieu; and Esmeralda, his opera libretto drawn from Notre-Dame de Paris.
A rewarding companion to Hugo’s novels, showing the passion and spectacle he brought to French romantic theatre. Download the free EPUB.