Verse Drama

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Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand People's Literature Publishing House · 2009 Cyrano de Bergerac is a five-act heroic comedy written in 1897 by the French playwright Edmond Rostand, originally titled Cyrano de Bergerac and based…
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The Boy in the Landscape: Selected Poems and Prose of Hofmannsthal Hugo von Hofmannsthal Yilin Press · 2024 This book is a selected collection of poems and prose by the Austrian poet, playwright, and essayist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), translated by …
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The Sisters' Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich Macmillan and Co. · 1891 The Sisters' Tragedy is a short verse drama by the American writer and poet Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), first collected in the 1891 volume of t…
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An Afternoon Full of Goldfinches: Selected Poems of Zeng Siyi 曾思艺 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2016 An Afternoon Full of Goldfinches: Selected Poems of Zeng Siyi is a selection of poems by the scholar, poet, and translator Zeng Siyi, published by Gua…
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Rating 4.6
The Complete Poems of Haizi Hai Zi / 西川 Writers Publishing House · 2009 The Complete Poems of Haizi, compiled by the poet Xi Chuan and published by Writers Publishing House in March 2009, marks the twentieth anniversary of…
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Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People's Literature Publishing House · 2017 Goethe's Faust is the weightiest work in German literature and is often seen by readers as a "hard to read" book. The significance of Lü Yuan's transl…
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Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People's Literature Publishing House · 2019 Faust is the lifework of the German writer Goethe, a verse drama of more than twelve thousand lines. Part One was published in 1808, and Part Two was …
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Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two Christopher Marlowe The Commercial Press · 2020 Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two is a verse play written by the English Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe as a sequel to Part One; the two are…
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Tamburlaine the Great (Part One) Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great, Part One is a verse play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe, written around 1587 and first printed in 1590. It is gen…
Harvard Classics, Volume 21: The Tragedy of Faust · The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus · Egmont · Hermann and Dorothea cover
Harvard Classics, Volume 21: The Tragedy of Faust · The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus · Egmont · Hermann and Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Christopher Marlowe / Charles William Eliot Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2014 The Harvard Classics derives from the "Five-Foot Shelf" compiled in 1909 by Charles Eliot, the second president of Harvard University, to give ordinar…
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Chastelard Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1865 Chastelard is a five-act verse tragedy by the English poet and playwright Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), published in November 1865. Together…
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Chitra Rabindranath Tagore China Theatre Press · 1959 Chitra, also translated as The Flower-Braided Girl, is a one-act verse play by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. In 1891, Tagore first wrote Chitra…
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Harvard Classics, Volume 6: Modern English Drama John Dryden / Richard Brinsley Sheridan / 奥利弗·哥尔斯密 / 珀西·比希·雪莱 / Robert Browning / George Gordon Byron / Charles William Eliot Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2013 This is Volume 6 of the Chinese edition of the Harvard Classics, gathering six representative plays from the history of English drama and presenting, …
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Chitra: A Play in One Act Rabindranath Tagore The India Society of London; Macmillan · 1913 Chitra: A Play in One Act is a one-act lyrical verse drama by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, translated into English by the author himself. The …
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A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (English Original Edition) Robert Browning · 1843 A Blot in the 'Scutcheon is a five-act blank-verse tragedy written by the English poet Robert Browning in 1843. It was published that year as the fift…
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Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand People's Literature Publishing House · 2009 Cyrano de Bergerac is a five-act heroic comedy in verse by the French playwright Edmond Rostand, written in 1897. The play is based on the seventeenth…
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King Lear‘s Wife The Crier Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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The Masque of the Elements Scheffauer, Herman George, 1878-1927 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Murder in the Cathedral (The Eliot Papers) 托·斯·艾略特 / 陆建德 / 李文俊 / 袁伟 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 This book is translated from the drama section of The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot, published by Faber & Faber in 1969. It collects five ma…