Hernani drew on popular melodrama for its effects, exploited the historical and geographic local colour of an imagined 16th-century Spain, and had a tragic hero with whom young Romantics eagerly identified. |
Hernani also benefited from the production in Paris of several Shakespearean and historical dramas in particular, a sustained and triumphal season in 1827 by an English troupe playing Shakespeare. |
Hernani Golez, Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry for the Philippine government. |
In our performance it was Mounet-Sully, in all the splendour of his talent, who played Hernani. |