Victor Hugo, my favorite.

Mary Collins
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Probably helped WS to have Victor Hugo as a translator.
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> Mike
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM Mary Collins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>>     He is also observing one of the rules of Classical Tragedy, so
>> beloved of the French, which is to tell not show, especially concerning
>> anything violent. Former French major, moi, learned at UT that the French
>> generally abhorred Shakespeare until the Romantic period. Maggie, am I
>> speaking la vérité? The idea of Macbeth brandishing that bloody knife or
>> the terrible torture of Gloucester in Lear was considered barbaric. (And
>> mixing clowns and the tragic was simply incomprehensible.)
>>
>> They have relaxed about it and embrace M. Shakespeare now.
>>
>> Marie
>>
>> Mary Collins
>> 646-554-3076
>> [email protected]
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>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> My favorite instance:
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>>> "I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee."
>>> "'Tis true, my lord, he did."
>>>
>>> Love to all,
>>>
>>> Mike
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>>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM David Sharpe <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> [image: theater device.jpeg]
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