Hans of Iceland ​🇮🇸​. A Play ▶️ in Three 3️⃣ Acts 🎭️

✅ Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name 📛 (penned 🖊️ when the author was only twenty-one 1️⃣), this macabre play ▶️ begins 🆕 in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland ​🇮🇸​, whose face 😀 has been seen 👀 by no one 1️⃣, determines to kill a regiment of Musketeers that he 👤👨 blames for the death 💀 of his 👤👨⬅️ son. His 👤👨⬅️ revenge intersects in a bloody way with the more conventional romantic plot of a young 👶 nobleman who loves ❤️ the daughter of a political prisoner that the former Chancellor of Norway ​🇳🇴​ has held in thrall for many years. The tension ratchets up ⬆️, culminating in a conflagration à la Samson that seems to anticipate the Grand Guignol movement by nearly a century. The story has the nightmarish logic of a bad 👎️ dream. As one 1️⃣ contemporary reviewer said 💬: If genius is very ❗️ close to madness 😡, then this work ⚙️ is very ❗️ close to genius. Great drama from a great writer ✍️!

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