... . His most famous works include the novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the immensely popular Les Miserables, which of course served as inspiration for one of the twentieth century's most popular musicals Les Mis; however, it is his dramatic works, rather than his novels, that incited so much animosity, praise, and even riots. Victor Hugo's fame as a playwright grew out of the riots surrounding the opening performance of his play Hernani. It is ... was Hugo. In 1827, Hugo published Cromwell, a long, unstageable, historical drama. The play is not regarded to be as important to the Roma...

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