Hugo, Shakespeare et l'enseignement des langues vivantes. (1).(text in French; Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare)(Critical Essay)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20020922
Author:Metzidakis, Stamos; Young, Regina M.

Entre tous les genies qu'admirait Victor Hugo, il avait un faible particulier pour William Shakespeare. "La premiere fois que j'ai entendu le nom de Shakespeare," ecrit-il dans ses Choses Vues, "[c]e fut en 1825 ... Ce nom, personne alors ne le prononcait tout a fait serieusement" (982). Dans sa fameuse Preface de Cromwell (1827), Hugo place l'ecrivain anglais a la tete des createurs, n'hesitant pas a le qualifier de "dieu du theatre" (81). La preeminence de Shakespeare apparait telle, qu'il faudrait trois dramaturges francais, selon Hugo, pour faire un Shakespeare, car en ce ...

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