Four previously untranslated plays for the World Classics series

Here are four characteristic and hugely important dramas by one of the most famous and influential European writers of the last two hundred years, translated into English for the first time, and in highly playable versions. An essential collection for students of both French and Drama

Hernani; Marion De Lorme; Lucrece Borgia; Ruy Blas

Victor Hugo (1807-1885)was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and the most important of the French Romantic writers. He began to write at a very young age and wrote over fifty novels and plays; including Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Claude Schumacher is an author and translator - his works include: Staging the Holocaust and Artaud on Theatre.