Burgraves

Burgraves is a historical drama of Victor Hugo represented for the first time at the Comédie-Française the March 7th 1843. This part was a failure and put an end to the romantic drama of Hugo and its theatrical career. The parts which he wrote during the remainder of his life were ever played of alive sound. The failure of this part cannot be summarized with a literary failure. One cannot deny that Victor Hugo had surely seen too large with this drama which combines dramatic power, lyric purity and epic force. The neo-classic sling, opponents with the romantic drama, found colors while carrying to naked the part of a young provincial author, François Ponsard, Lucrèce where she sees reviving the traditional verb. Opposition of both " écoles" turn to the advantage of traditional and wise Lucrèce returns the Burgrave old man to his dungeon. Thus the failure of Hugo to the theater corresponds perhaps more to one coincidence that with the intrinsic bankruptcy of qualities of its drama.

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