The Man of Two Lives: A Play in Three Acts: Adapted from ?Les Miserables?

by Victor Hugo, Bayle Bernard

Overview

London had seen a handful of adaptations of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" after the book's first publication, but under the direction of Edward Stirling, Bayle Bernard's adaptation was a theatrical extravaganza of Victorian proportion. Produced at London's prestigious Drury Lane, it opened in March of 1869 and starred the highly acclaimed actor Charles Dillon in the role Jean Valjean. Bayle Bernard was a highly regarded playwright, critic and novelist of the Victorian era having written over a hundred plays including the well known "The Kentuckian" and "The Mummy." The son of English comic actor John Bernard, he was born in Boston and later moved with his family to London where he spent the rest of his life. When he turned twenty he had his first professional production and would go on to have a play produced in London every season for the next 45 years, some years with as many as three different plays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781547045860
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/2017
Series:	Plays from the Victorian Stage
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger-than-life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th-century French author's books — from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame — have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18