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Esmeralda (French: [ɛs.me.ʁɑl.da]), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris).She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman).
Esmeralda, a young gypsy girl, is seen dancing in front of an audience of people. Quasimodo, the deaf hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, is crowned the King of Fools until Frollo catches up to him and takes him back to the church. Esmeralda is caught by a guard and seeks safety in Notre Dame.
Esmeralda has arranged this meeting expecting to marry her rescuer—unaware that Phoebus is already engaged, but intends to tell Esmeralda whatever she wants to hear to get a one-night stand. Just before Esmeralda is able to give her virginity to a shallow, vacuous man who does not love or respect her, Frollo, in a jealous rage, stabs Phoebus ...
O'Hara was generally praised for her performance though some critics thought that Laughton stole the show. One critic thought that was the strength of the film, writing: "The contrast between Laughton as the pathetic hunchback and O'Hara as the fresh-faced, tenderly solicitous gypsy girl is Hollywood teaming at its most inspired". [39]
Djali is Esmeralda's pet goat. In addition to dancing with Esmeralda, Djali can do tricks for money, such as tell time, spell Phoebus's name, and do impressions of public figures. Later, during Esmeralda's trial, when Esmeralda is falsely accused of stabbing Phoebus, Djali is falsely accused of being the devil in disguise.
“Gypsy,” which opened Dec. 19 at the newly restored Majestic Theatre, is the smartest kind of revival: one that excavates profound new layers of a classic piece, without plundering the musical ...
Esmeralda, a gypsy (Hugo's term) girl, is the darling of the people around Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Three men are romantically interested in her: Phöebus, the commander of the city guard, Quasimodo the bell ringer of Notre Dame and Claudius Frollo, the archdeacon of the cathedral.
Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, and Audra McDonald in Gypsy, open now at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre. Julieta Cervantes Woods recalls her first interaction with the show, as a child via the TV film ...