Comedie Francaise

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Theater--History--19th century

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Theater--Production and direction

Romanticism

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1830--French--Hugo's Hernani at the Comedie Francaise--Hugo wanted the theatre to be Romantic, and so he wrote this play to deliberately violate the neoclassical "rules"--a pitched battle between traditionalists and Romantics ensued. Hernani triumphed, and French Romanticism began to replace neoclassicism.

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1830

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Mon, 07/02/2001

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