The musical play, "The Hunchback" has been famous for long. I watched it once when I was in my second year of junior high. I like not only the story but also the music and the lyrics. There are always historial comments in the lyrics, which is very touching.
Below is the lyrics of one part, "Notre Dame De Paris act 2 song 1 Florence". The original edition was sung in French, the language in France, in which the story is taken place. But I translated it into English. (Actually, I can not read French. I whatched the Chinese translation and then translated it into Engligh.)
The song was sung by the archbishop and the poet.
p.s. I will write another paragragh or two to introduce the story, even the music later when I have time.
Notre Dame De Paris act2 song 1 Florence
archbishop: Tell me about Florence
And the renaissance
Tell me about Bramate
And the Hell of Dante
poet: In Florence they say
The world is round
And there may be other lands
In this world
Ships are sailing the oceans now
In search of the passage to India
archbishop: Luther will write the New Testament
And we're at the dawn of a divided world
poet: A certain Gutemberg
Has changed the face of the Earth
archbishop: With the presses in Nuremberg
That every second print
poet: Poems on paper
Speeches and tracts
together: Revolutionary ideas
That sweep everything else aside
poet: Small things outnumber big things
Thus literature will be the demise of architecture
archbishop: Schoolbooks will extinguish cathedrals
The Bible will destroy the church and men will kill God
This will destroy that
together: Ships are sailing the oceans now
In search of the passage to India
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
And we're at the dawn of a divided world
This will destroy that
This will destroy that
