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  2. Les Misérables - Wikipedia

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    Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə /, [4] French: [le mizeʁabl]) is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television, and the ...

  3. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    In Hamlet the development of the plot or the action are determined by the unfolding of Hamlet's character. The soliloquies do not interrupt the plot, instead they are highlights of each block of action. The plot is the developing revelation of Hamlet's view of what is "rotten in the state of Denmark."

  4. Jean Valjean - Wikipedia

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    Jean Valjean (French: [ʒɑ̃ val.ʒɑ̃]) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.The story depicts the character's struggle to lead a normal life and redeem himself after serving a 19-year-long prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's starving children and attempting to escape from prison.

  5. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    Example: Hamlet; Pursuit. punishment; a fugitive; the fugitive flees punishment for a misunderstood conflict. Example: Les Misérables, The Fugitive; Disaster. a vanquished power; a victorious enemy or a messenger; The vanquished power falls from their place after being defeated by the victorious enemy or being informed of such a defeat by the ...

  6. Les Misérables (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), -⁠ RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz (/ l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z / lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by ...

  7. Friends of the ABC - Wikipedia

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    The Friends of the ABC (French: Les Amis de l'ABC) is a fictional association of revolutionary French republican students featured in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. In French, the name of the society is a pun , in which abaissés ( ' the abased, humiliated, degraded ' ) is pronounced [abese] , very similar to A-B-C ( [ɑ be se] ).

  8. List of Les Misérables characters - Wikipedia

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    Book 4: The A B C Society A revolutionary student club. In French, the letters "ABC" are pronounced identically to the French word abaissés, "the abased". Enjolras – The leader of Les Amis de l'ABC (Friends of the ABC) in the Paris uprising. A resolute and charismatic youth, he is passionately committed to republican principles and the idea ...

  9. Hamlet (Thomas) - Wikipedia

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    as they turn to leave. The orchestra begins to play the theme of Hamlet's Promise, and Hamlet sings: Mon pére! Patience! Patience! – "My father! Patience! Patience!". [48] 9. Recitative and chorus of comedians. Marcellus and Horatio enter with the Players (tenors and basses). Marcellus announces: Voici les histrions mandés par vous, Seigneur.