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In August 2010, Adrian Glew, a Tate archivist, announced evidence for a real-life Quasimodo, a "humpbacked [stone] carver" who worked at Notre Dame during the 1820s. [9] The evidence is contained in the memoirs of Henry Sibson, a 19th-century British sculptor who worked at Notre Dame at around the same time Hugo wrote the novel. [9]
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ... British archivist Adrian Glew discovered references to a real-life man called "Hunchback" who was a foreman of a government sculpting ...
Claude Frollo (French: [klod fʁɔlo]) is a fictional Christian clergyman and the primary antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (original French title: Notre-Dame de Paris). He is also an alchemist, Renaissance humanist, and intellectual.
Victor Hugo recreated an account of a Feast of Fools in his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In the novel, it is celebrated on January 6, 1482 (Twelfth Night) and Quasimodo serves as the Pope of Fools. The 1939 film of The Hunchback of Notre Dame opens with the Feast of Fools: Quasimodo is crowned King of Fools.
Victor Hugo helped make the cathedral a symbol of Paris and France when he used it as a setting for his 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed ...
The idea to adapt The Hunchback of Notre Dame came from development executive David Stainton in 1993, who was inspired to turn Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame into an animated feature film after reading the Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation. [6] Stainton then proposed the idea to then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg.
He originated the role of Frollo in the U.S. premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, [12] made his Shakespeare in the Park debut in Cymbeline, and in fall 2015 played Adult Men in the Spring Awakening revival produced by Deaf West and directed by his Hunchback co-star Michael Arden.
• “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (April 26 to May 5, Lincoln Theatre): The Disney musical, suitable for all ages, was adapted by composer Alan Menken, lyricist Stephen Schwartz and author ...