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- The main plot of vengeance and love, in which Salluste, in order to avenge himself, disguises his romantic lackey as a nobleman and seeks by the resulting love affair to compromise the queen, is apparently derived from a historical event, the marriage of Angelica Kauffmann to the impostor Horn, which was made known to Hugo
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Ruy Blas (French pronunciation: [ʁɥi blɑ]) is a tragic drama by Victor Hugo. It was the first play presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance and opened on November 8, 1838. Though considered by many to be Hugo’s best drama, the play was initially met with only average success.
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Nov 17, 2023 · Jacques Weber's staging of Ruy Blas navigates the right choices: the casting, the blend of eras, and the text that speaks for itself. Spending two hours immersed in traditional French theatre is also the audience's choice—a choice made for the sake of art.
Ruy Blas, an indentured commoner (and a poet), dares to love the Queen. The play is a thinly veiled cry for political reform. The story centers around a practical joke played on the Queen, Maria de Neubourg, by Don Salluste de Bazan, in revenge for being scorned by her.
Mar 17, 2022 · Felix Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture Context. After reading (and hating) Victor Hugo’s Ruy Blas, Felix Mendelssohn was asked to write an overture based on the grim story in 1839. The play, based in 18th-century Spain, tells the story of Ruy Blas, a servant who is tricked by his master, Don Salluste.
The plot was based on Victor Hugo's five act verse play Ruy Blas that was first performed on November 8, 1838 at the opening of the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. In brief, a Spanish grandee, Don Sallust, exiled by the Queen, plots revenge by getting his servant, Ruy Blas, to impersonate an aristocrat, Don Cesar, in order to gain the ...
May 30, 2024 · The real Don César now returns to court, and Ruy Blas, glowing from a declaration of love by the Queen, has to choose between bringing about her disgrace or losing her by revealing his identity. To save her honour, he kills Don Salluste and then takes poison.
This study of the character of Ruy Blas, which will be perhaps the most exhaustive of all my articles on Hugo's dramatic characters, is almost wholly inductive.
