Contemporary Verse Dramatists

19th-21st Century

Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama

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19th Century

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

• Manfred (1817)
  
• Marino Faliero (1820)
  
• Cain (1821)
  
• Heaven and Earth (1821)
  
• Sardanapalus (1821)
  
• The Two Foscari (1821)
  
• Werner (1822).
  

See also:

• 1801: The Fairy of the Lake, John Thelwall
  

• 1805-1810: Tom Thumb the Great: A Burlesque Tragedy from Fielding, Kane O’Hara Esq. (adapted from Fielding)
  

• 1827: Merlin: A Drama in Three Acts, Lambert A. Wilmer
  

• 1829 (circa): Fragments of the Masque of Gwendolen, Reginald Heber
  

• 1843: Launcelot of the Lake: A Tragedy, in Five Acts, C. J. Riethmüller  
  

• 1868: King Arthur: Or, Launcelot the Loose, Gin-Ever the Square and the Knights of the Round Table, and Other Furniture. A Burlesque Extravaganza, W. M. Akhurst
  

• 1871: King Arthur: or, The Knights of the Round Table, and other funny-ture.  A Burlesque Extravaganza, W. M. Akhurst
  

• 1884: Time and the Witch Vivian, William Butler Yeats
  

• 1885: The New King Arthur: An Opera Without Music, Edgar Fawcett
  

• 1889: Merlin, John Veitch
  

• 1891: The Marriage of Guenevere: A Tragedy, Richard Hovey
  

• 1891: The Quest of Merlin, Richard Hovey
  

• 1893: Excalibur: An Arthurian Drama, Ralph Adams Cram
  

• 1895: Mordred: A Tragedy in Five Acts, founded on the Arthurian Relation of Sir Thomas Mallory, Wilfred Campbell
  

• 1895: King Arthur: A Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts, J. Comyns Carr, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
  

• 1895: Mordred: A Tragedy, Henry Newbolt
  

• 1898: The Birth of Galahad, Richard Hovey
  

20th Century

Charles Williams
(1886-1945)

• The Chapel of the Thorn (1912)
  
• The Masques of Amen House: The Masque of the Manuscript (1927), The Masque of Perusal (1929), The Mask of the Termination of Copyright (1930)
  
• A Myth of Shakespeare (1930)
  
• A Myth of Francis Bacon (1930)
  
• Three plays: The Rite of the Passion (1929), The Chaste Wanton (1930), The Witch (1931)
  
• Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (1936)
  
• Seed of Adam (1937)
  
• Judgement at Chelmsford (1939)
  
• The Death of Good Fortune (1939)
  
• Terror of Light (1940)
  
• Grab and Grace (1941)
  
• The Three Temptations (1942)
  
• House of the Octopus (1945)
  

See also:

• 1900: Taliesin: A Masque, Richard Hovey
  

• 1905: The Birth of Parsival, R. C. Trevelyan
  

• 1905: Gwenevere: A Lyric Play, Written for Music, Earnest Rhys, with music by Vincent Thomas
  

• 1906: Tristam & Iseult : A Drama in Four Acts, J. Comyns Carr
  

• 1906: Guenevere: A Play in Five Acts, Stark Young
  

• 1906: Guinevere: A Tragedy in Three Acts, Graham Hill
  

• 1907: Merlin and Vivian: A Lyric Dream, Ethel Watts Mumford, with music by Henry Kimball Hadley
  

• 1908: Lanval: A Drama in Four Acts, T. E. Ellis
  

• 1908: The Farwell of Lancelot and Guinevere, W. E. B. Henderson
  

• 1908: The Young Knight or How Gareth Won His Spurs, Reverend James Yeames
  

• 1908: The Masque of the Grail, Earnest Rhys
  

• 1908: Enid: A Lyric Play Written for Music, Earnest Rhys
  

• 1909: Lancelot and Elaine: A Play in Five Acts, Morley Steynor
  

• 1909: The Birth of Arthur: A Choral Drama, libretto by Rutland Boughton and Reginald R. Buckley, music by Rutland Boughton
  

• 1911: Uther and Igraine, Choral Drama (Music Drama of the Future), Reginald R. Buckley, with music by Rutland Boughton
  

• 1911: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Play in Five Acts, Reverend James Yeames
  

• 1912: The Tragedy of Etarre, Rhys Carpenter
  

• 1914: The Queen’s Crags, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
  

• 1914: The New Parsifal: An Operatic Fable, R. C. Trevelyan
  

• 1916: The Round Table, Rutland Boughton
  

• 1918: Lancelot, Algernon Charles Swinburne
  

• 1918: La Mort Sans Pitié, Ernest Rhys
  

• 1923: Elaine: A Poetic Drama, Mildred Weinberger
  

• 1923: The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Conrwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, Thomas Hardy
  

• 1924: The Famous Tragedy of The Queen of Cornwall, Rutland Boughton (inspired by Hardy)
  

• 1929: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Charles William Bailey
  

• 1930: Birds of Rhiannon: A Grove Play, Waldemar Young, music by Edward Harris
  

• 1934: The Lily Maid, Rutland Boughton
  

• 1944: Galahad, Rutland Boughton
  

• 1945: Avalon, Rutland Boughton
  

• 1949: Thor, with Angels, Christopher Fry
  

• 1981: The Marvels of Merlin, Tim Porter
  

21st Century

Jenny Lyn Bader

Monica Cross

Matthew Freeman

• The Death of King Arthur (2001)
  

Glyn Maxwell

Caeden Musser

Peter Oswald

Lucy Nordberg

• King Arthur (2009)
  

James Parenti

Duncan Pflaster
(1973--)

• Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants (2005)
  
• The Thyme of the Season, or A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream (2007)
  
• Ore, or Or (2009)
  
• The Empress of Sex (2012)
  
• The Tragedy of Dandelion (2014)
  
• Dear Little Butterface, or the Uncommon Hoor (2016)
  
• Cockeye(D) (2017)
  
• Malvolio's Revenge (2019)
  
• Lady in Waiting (2019)
  
• Julio and Rose (2020)
  
• Nothing But Thunder (2023)
  
• Harmony Hall (2023)
  

Arthur Phillips

• The Tragedy of Arthur (2013)
  

Daniel James Roth

• 2019: The Tragedy of King Arthur, Daniel James Roth
  

Emily C. A. Snyder
(1977--)

• Cupid and Psyche: Bad Quarto (2009)
• Turn to Flesh (2011)
• To the Dark Tower Came (2011)
• Becket (2011 - Fragment)
• Vengeance Becomes Electra (2013)
• Galatea (2013)
• Pygmalion (2014 - Fragment)
• Atalanta's Heel (2014 - Fragment)
• Cupid and Psyche (2014, 2018, 2022)
• A Comedy of Heirors, or The Imposters (2017)
• Persephone Rises (2014, 2018)
• The Seduction of Adonis (2018)
• The Merry Widows of Windsor (2018)
• The Other, Other Woman (2018)
• A Midsummer Night's Brexit (2018)
• The Distance That's Between Us Is the Moon (2019)
• Tiresias (2019)
• All's Well That Ends. (2019)
• The Table Round and The Siege Perilous (2019)
  
• Juliet and Her Romeo (2020)/Romeo and Juliet Combative (2019)
• Here (2020)
• Tiresias Before the Gates (2020)
• The Wild Hunt (2022 - Fragment)
• Romancing the Moon (2022 - Fragment)
• New Verse Scenes & Soliloquies, Vol 1 (38 Experimental Pieces - 2022)
• The Inventor's Apprentice (2022)

Deb Victoroff