Roi s'amuse, Le (1832). Poetic drama by Hugo, the basis of Verdi's Rigoletto. François Ier's jester Triboulet, driven mad by the king's love for his daughter, plans to have him murdered, but finds instead that the body in the sack that he is about to throw into the Seine is that of his daughter.
Le roi s'amuse
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Le roi s'amuse (translated into English as "The King's Fool") is a play written by Victor Hugo in 1832. While it depicts the escapades of Francis I of France, censors of the time believed that it also contained insulting references to King Louis-Philippe and banned it after one performance. The lawsuit that Hugo brought to permit the performance of the play propelled him into celebrity as a defender of freedom of speech in France. He lost the suit, however, and the play was banned for another fifty years. Léo Delibes later wrote incidental music for its performance.
Giuseppe Verdi based his opera Rigoletto on Hugo's play. Austrian authorities in Venice forced him to move the action from France to Mantua.
See also Censorship in France
External links
- 1843 Frederick Lokes Slous translation at googlebooks
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Mentioned in
- Rigoletto
- Diane De Poitiers
- Le roi s'amuse, incidental music ("Six airs de danse dans le style ancien") (Classical Work)
- Léo Delibes
- François Ier
- Duke of Mantua (character)
- Victor Hugo (Classical Musician)
- Rigoletto (character)
- Rose Eytinge (American Theater)
- Réminiscences de Boccanegra, transcription for piano (after Verdi), S. 438 (LW A314) (Classical Work)
- Réminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia, Trio du seconde Acte, for piano (after Donizetti), S. 400/1 (LW A71b/1) (Classical Work)
- Rigoletto, opera (Classical Work)
- Triboulet
- Passepied
