... published Cromwell, a long, unstageable, historical drama. The play is not regarded to be as important to the Romantic Revolution so much as the play's preface. John Frey states in his book, A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia, that the preface to Cromwell is the "culmination of Romantic emancipation from the tenets of the French classic dramaturgy- (76). To fully understand just how revolutionary Hugo ... 's ideas were one must understand the strict theatrical rules held in place the French Classical system. Classicism refers to the aesthetic principles in Aristotle's "Poetics." For theater, this...

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