



Some prominent examples include a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce. The novel is considered a classic of French literature and has been adapted repeatedly for film, stage and television. All its elements- Renaissance setting, impossible love affairs, marginalized characters-make the work a model of the literary themes of Romanticism. It focuses on the unfortunate story of Quasimodo, the Romani street dancer Esmeralda and Quasimodo's guardian the Archdeacon Claude Frollo in 15th-century Paris. The title refers to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which features prominently throughout the novel. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ( French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit.' Our Lady of Paris', originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris.
