Complete Plays of Robert Browning
Victorian verse dramas and historical plays, from Paracelsus to Pippa Passes, with G. K. Chesterton's introductionBy Robert Browning
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Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Table of Contents:
Introduction:
Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton
Plays:
Paracelsus
Strafford
Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes
Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles
Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses
Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'scutcheon
Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday
Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and a Soul's Tragedy
Herakles
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Pippa Passes is a verse drama, which was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion. The author described the work as "the first of a series of dramatic pieces."
King Victor and King Charles was the second play written by Robert Browning for the stage. The subject of the play is the strange incident in 1730-32 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing complaints unexpectedly demanded to be restored. He was imprisoned until his death a year later. Browning's treatment is based on 18th century sources which cast Victor as deliberately deceptive, but he goes further to create a secret history in which Charles is exonerated from all charges of cruelty. The play is in four acts and has only four main characters: Victor, Charles, Charles's wife Polyxena, and the minister D'Ormea.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
44First Year 1730. — King Victor
2Chapter I
45Part I
3Chapter II
46Part II
4Chapter III
47Second Year 1731. — King Charles
5Chapter IV
48Part I
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6Chapter V
49Part II
7Chapter VI
50Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses
8Chapter VII
51Persons
9Chapter VIII
52Act I
10Paracelsus
53Act II
11Persons
54Act III
12Part I. Paracelsus Aspires
55Act IV
13Part II. Paracelsus Attains
56Act V
14Part III. Paracelsus
57Dramatis Personæ
15Part IV. Paracelsus Aspires
58Act I
16Part V. Paracelsus Attains
59Scene I
17Preface
60Scene II
18Dramatis Personæ
61Scene III
19Act I
62Act II: Scene I
20Scene I. A House Near Whitehall
63Act III
21Scene II. Whitehall
64Scene I
22Act II
65Scene II
23Scene I. A House Near Whitehall
66Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe’s Birthday
24Scene II. Whitehall
67Persons
25Act III
68Act I
26Scene I. Opposite Westminster Hall
69Act II
27Scene II. Whitehall
70Act III
28Scene III. The Antechamber of the House of Lords
71Act IV
29Act IV
72Act V
30Scene I. Whitehall
73Luria
31Scene II. A Passage Adjoining Westminster Hall
74Dedication
32Scene III. Whitehall
75Persons
33Act V
76Act I
34Scene I. Whitehall
77Act II
35Scene II. The Tower
78Act III
36Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes
79Act IV
37Day
80Act V
38I — Morning
81A Soul’s Tragedy
39II — Noon
82Part I
40III. — Evening
83Part II
41IV. — Night
84Herakles
42Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles
85The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
43Persons
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