Verse Drama

Plays written in verse — the high music of the stage from the Greeks and Shakespeare to the closet dramas of the Romantics.

When the theater spoke in poetry

In this collection

• Crocus Song
• Death-Lament of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga
• Witchcraft
• The Mystery of Pain
• Solepa
• Stars
• A few Diversions
• Grasshopper in Love with Deer
• The Jewess
• The Model of Sorrows
• The Dog and the Playlet
• Bayard Taylor
• A Motive in Gold and Gray
• The Holy War
• Architectural Masks
• Jenny Wren
• The Spanish Student
• The Masque of Pandora
• The Divine Tragedy
• The Golden Legend
• The New England Tragedies
• Judas Maccabaeus
• Michael Angelo
• The Months: a Pageant
• Prometheus Unbound
• The Cenci
• Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant
• Hellas
• Fragments of an Unfinished Drama
• Charles the First
• Scene from ‘Tasso'
• Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso
• Paracelsus
• Strafford
• Pippa Passes
• King Victor and King Charles
• The Return of the Druses
• A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
• Colombe's Birthday
• Luria
• In a Balcony
• The Agamemnon of Æschylus
• Within and Without
• Julius Caesar

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