Victor Hugo's Preface to Cromwell

Please join us for a discussion and read through of Victor Hugo's 1827 Preface to Cromwell, where we will inaugurate a new series on Victor Hugo in which we will read Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame at some point.

Victor Hugo's Preface to Cromwell (1827) is the definitive manifesto of the French Romantic movement. Written as an introduction to his massive, unstageable play, Hugo outlines a revolutionary, rule-breaking dramatic style designed to replace rigid classical traditions with complex, modern realism.

Online Text Link:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cromwell_(Hugo,_tr._Ives)/Preface