Hugo, Victor-Marie
(1802–85)French poet, novelist and dramatist. Hugo was the outstanding exponent of romanticism in French drama, a fashion in dramatic writing which lasted a mere fifteen years, leaving no works with a firm place in the national repertoire, but which succeeded in its day in providing a focal point for the cultural and political aspirations of a generation. Hugo achieved early distinction as a poet and a novelist; his fascination with the theatre is said to have been set going by repeated visits to a ... ...
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