The Twins, V. Hugo

Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

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Deutschland

 

ISBN: 9783849651145

 

English translation by George Burnham Ives (1856 – 1930)

 

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CONTENTS:

 

PREFACE.. 1

DRAMATlS PERSONAE.. 2

ACT FIRST.. 3

ACT SECOND... 33

ACT THIRD... 48

NOTES. 60

THE TWINS

 

PREFACE

 

The drama contained in the following pages, which was written in 1839, between Ruy Blas and the Burgraves, unfortunately, was never completed. The author wrote but two complete acts; the third is unfinished.

Indeed it may well be said that the first two acts as well are unfinished. The first act, which contains nearly nine hundred lines, would necessarily have been abridged and condensed by the poet. Victor Hugo had a habit of beginning one of his works by giving a free rein to his inexhaustible imagination; the result was a superabundance of minute details and of minor developments of the plot, which he would afterward revise, simplifying, rectifying, modifying. We have here only the first sketch, something analogous to the “first proof” of one of Rembrandt's eaux-fortes, which many a connoisseur prefers to the final impression; in them we surprise genius at work, and look on at the creation of a chef-d'oeuvre.

 

 

DRAMATlS PERSONAE

 

THE KING

THE MASK

COMTE JEAN DE CRÉQUI

CARDINAL MAZARIN

GUILLOT-GORJU

TAGUS

COMTE DE BUSSY

DUC DE CHAULNE

COMTE DE BRÉZÉ

VICOMTE D’EMBRuN

MASTER BENOIT TREVoUX, Lieutenant of Police

M. DE LA FERTÉ-IRLAN

CHANDENIER

A CITIZEN

A CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD

A JAILER

THE QUEEN MOTHER

ALIX DE PONTHIEU

DAME CLAUDE

Citizens, Peasants, Soldiers, Police