Used book – Ruy Blas, Victor Hugo

At the Spanish court, Queen Dona Maria orders the nobleman Don Salluste to marry her maid, whom he has seduced and impregnated. He refuses; she exiles him. But, dishonoured, the man does not intend to leave without taking revenge. He devises a diabolical plan to compromise the queen; his valet, Ruy Blas, who is madly in love with Dona Maria, will unknowingly help him in this infamous undertaking... A jewel of Hugo's theatre and a consecration of romantic drama, Ruy Blas remains today one of the playwright's most performed works. The edition's dossier presents extracts from the preface to Cromwell, in which Victor Hugo sets out the fundamental principles of romantic drama, and revisits Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman's production for the Comédie-Française, during the bicentenary of the author's birth.