A big-hearted brigand launched into a tumultuous action, a terrible and impossible love which ends on stage with a lyrical and collective death: the play has retained a part of the darkness, lightning and madness that ignited the audience of the XIX th century, and yet gave birth to a new theater. Because Hernani is also the name of a battle, the one that Hugo started in 1830 with this romantic drama in the dislocated Alexandrian.
