Présentation de l'éditeur
As the Translator of Hernani and Ruy Bias, I maybe permitted to offer a few remarks on the three great dramas which are now presented in an English form to the English-speaking public. Each of these works is preceded by the Author s Preface, which perhaps exhausts all that had to be said of the play which follows from his own original point of view. It is curious to contrast the confident egotism, the frequent self-assertion, and the indignation at repression which mark the prefaces to Hernani and Le Roi s Amuse with the calm dignity of the very fine dramatic criticism which introduces the reader to Buy Bias. But when the last-named tragedy was produced, Victor Hugo sfame was established and his literary position secure; he no longer had need to assert himself, for if a few enemies still remained, their voices were but as the buzzing of flies about a giant. Trusting that the Author s Prefaces will be carefully read, I will endeavour only to supplement what is said in them. Hernani belongs emphatically to the romantic school, and to the period in European literature when the bonds of olden custom in all the arts were being broken often for good results, though not always.
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