... the drame, or domestic tragedy. However, the Comedie Francaise rejected drames, and they were produced largely in the boulevard theatres and later became melodramas. All of these authors influenced Victor Hugo's ideas of Romanticism, yet surprisingly it is not any of Hugo's own countrymen who were the chief source of his inspiration. In attempting to build a theatrical heritage, German playwrights, ... vital stage creations should reflect all grades of common life and experience; that stilted, borrowed forms should be discarded, and that sincerity is of all things the first requisite (D...

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