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Hugo, Rostand, Hernani and How to Be a Romantic by Lisa VanDamme
Ayn Rand Institute Live!
English - September 14, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 124 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Victor Hugo’s Hernani was more than a play. It was “the rehearsal of a revolution,” a bold theatrical rebellion that defied Classical dogmas and made way for a new Romanticism. On the centenary of Hugo’s birth, writer Edmond Rostand would pay worshipful tribute to his hero with a poem called Un Soir à Hernani. In this lecture, I will tell the thrilling story of Hernani, share excerpts from Rostand’s never-translated tribute, and highlight all that Hugo and Rostand have to show us about how to be a Romantic.
Recorded live on July 6, 2022 as part of the Objectivist Summer Conference.