Lucrezia Borgia (play)
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1833 play by Victor Hugo
Lucrezia Borgia (French: Lucrèce Borgia) is an 1833 play by the French writer Victor Hugo. It is a historical work portraying the Renaissance-era Italian aristocrat Lucrezia Borgia. The play (along with Angelo, Tyrant of Padua ) is believed to have been a major influence on Oscar Wilde's The Duchess of Padua (1891).[1]
Adaptations
[edit ]The opera Lucrezia Borgia composed by Gaetano Donizetti had a libretto by Felice Romani which was based on Hugo's play. Several films about Borgia and her family have drawn partly on the plot of the play.
Bibliography
[edit ]- Kohl, Norbert. Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel. Cambridge University Press, 2011
References
[edit ]- ^ Kohl p.46
External links
[edit ]Media related to Lucrèce Borgia at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1833 plays
- Plays set in Italy
- Plays by Victor Hugo
- Plays set in the 15th century
- Plays set in the 16th century
- Plays based on real people
- Plays adapted into operas
- Cultural depictions of Cesare Borgia
- Cultural depictions of Lucrezia Borgia
- Cultural depictions of Pope Alexander VI
- 19th-century play stubs