The Return of the Druses
Drama by Robert Browning
The Return of the Druses | |
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Written by | Robert Browning |
Date premiered | 1843 |
Original language | English |
Genre | Tragedy |
The Return of the Druses is a tragedy in blank verse by Robert Browning. It was originally published as the fourth number (No. IV) of Bells and Pomegranates in 1843. The manuscript was first named Mansoor the Hierophant.[1]
Persons
- The Grand-Master's Prefect
- The Patriarch's Nuncio
- The Republic's Admiral
- Loys de Dreux, Knight-Novice
- Initiated Druses—Djabal, Khalil, Anael, Maani, Karshook, Raghib, Ayoob, and others
- Uninitiated Druses, Prefect's Guard, Nuncio's Attendants, Admiral's Force
Time, 14—
See also
- Druze
References
- ^ Scudder 1895, p. 197.
Sources
- Scudder, Horace E. (1895). The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; Cambridge: The Riverside Press. p. 197.
Further reading
- Fahmi, Ismael M.; Dabbagh, Lanja A. (18 June 2020). "The Misrepresentation of The Druse Community in Browning’s Unsuccessful Tragedy: "The Return of the Druses" (1843): An Analytical Study". Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1). pp. 69–72. doi:10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp69-72.
- Jaouad, Hédi A. (28 June 2018). "The Return of the Druses: Djabal, Betwixt and Between". In Browning Upon Arabia: A Moveable East. Palgrave Macmillan. pp 127–153. ISBN 978-3-319-92647-6.
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Robert Browning
- Strafford (1837)
- Pippa Passes (1841)
- King Victor and King Charles (1842)
- The Return of the Druses (1843)
- A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843)
- Colombe's Birthday (1844)
- Luria (1846)
- A Soul's Tragedy (1846)
- In a Balcony (1855)
and poems
- Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833)
- Paracelsus (1835)
- "Porphyria's Lover" (1836)
- "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" (1836)
- Sordello (1840)
- Dramatic Lyrics (1842, "My Last Duchess", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister", "Count Gismond")
- Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845, "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix", "Meeting at Night", "The Laboratory", "The Lost Leader")
- Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850)
- Men and Women (1855, "Love Among the Ruins", "Evelyn Hope", "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", "Andrea del Sarto", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "A Toccata of Galuppi's")
- Dramatis Personæ (1864, "Rabbi ben Ezra", "Caliban upon Setebos")
- The Ring and the Book (1868–9)
- Balaustion's Adventure (1871)
- Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871)
- Fifine at the Fair (1872)
- Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (1873)
- Aristophanes' Apology (1875)
- The Inn Album (1875)
- Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876)
- The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877)
- La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878)
- Dramatic Idyls (1879, 1880)
- Jocoseria (1883)
- Ferishtah's Fancies (1884)
- Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)
- Asolando (1889)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (wife)
- Robert Barrett Browning (son)
- Casa Guidi
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