This carefully crafted ebook: ldquo;Complete Plays of Robert Browningrdquo; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.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. ChestertonPlays:ParacelsusStraffordBells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa PassesBells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King CharlesBells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the DrusesBells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the scutcheonBells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombes BirthdayBells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and a Souls TragedyHeraklesThe Agamemnon of AeschylusPippa 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. Brownings 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; Charless wife Polyxena; and the minister DOrmea.
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