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    • Seasons >
      • Season One >
        • S1 E1: Defining Verse Drama
        • S1 E2: Content Dictates Form
        • S1 E3: Schwumpf, There It Is
        • S1 E4: Heresy!
        • S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?
        • S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?
        • S1 E7: What's My Line (Ending)?
        • S1 E8: First Folio and Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E9: The Rules of Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E10: Silences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines
      • Season Two >
        • S2 E1: The Earliest Arthur: Thomas Hughes
        • S2 E2: Verse Drama Meets Opera: John Dryden
        • S2 E3: Burlesque and Verse Drama: Henry Fielding's "Tom Thumb"
        • S2 E4: Defenestrating Lancelot!
        • S2 E5: Empowering Guinevere
        • S2 E6: More Hovey, More Honey
        • S2 E7: Melodrama!
        • S2 E8: Gilbert and Sullivan Do King Arthur...Kinda
        • S2 E9: King Arthur and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Play
        • S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia
        • S2 E11: A Philosophical "King Arthur" by Lucy Nordberg
        • S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's "The Tragedy of King Arthur"
        • S2 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: "The Table Round" & "The Siege Perilous" by Emily C. A. Snyder (2019)
      • Season Three >
        • S3 E1: So You Think You Know Soliloquies?
        • S3 E2: Redefining Verse Drama, Pt. 1 - Four Types of Verse
        • S3 E3: Deep Dive: Exploring Hamlet's Seven Soliloquies
        • S3 E4: Deep Dive: Exploring Macbeth's Soliloquies
        • S3 E5: The Villain Soliloquies: Richard III, Iago, Edmund Don John...and Petruchio?
        • S3 E6: "Madness" in Soliloquy:- Re-examining King Lear, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia
        • S3 15: Discovering Character Through Line Breaks - Part 3
    • Bonus Episodes >
      • Interviews >
        • Interview: Tim Carroll
        • Interview: Peter Oswald
        • Interview: Glyn Maxwell
        • Interview: Kasia Lech
        • Interview: Caeden Musser
        • Interview: Deb Victoroff
      • Round Tables >
        • Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder
        • Round Table: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley, Benedetto Robinson
      • BAR(D) TALKS
      • Unhinged Rants
  • Additional Resources
    • Types of Verse >
      • What is Verse?
      • Prose vs. Poetry
    • Meter and Scansion >
      • What is Meter?
      • Rhythm and Prosody
      • Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
      • Prosody (Wikipedia)
    • Contemporary Verse Dramatists >
      • 18th Century
      • 19th Century
      • 20th Century
      • 21st Century
    • Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama
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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

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  • Home
    • Team
    • Turn to Flesh Productions
    • DM Me Podcast
  • Episode Guide
    • Seasons >
      • Season One >
        • S1 E1: Defining Verse Drama
        • S1 E2: Content Dictates Form
        • S1 E3: Schwumpf, There It Is
        • S1 E4: Heresy!
        • S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?
        • S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?
        • S1 E7: What's My Line (Ending)?
        • S1 E8: First Folio and Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E9: The Rules of Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E10: Silences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines
      • Season Two >
        • S2 E1: The Earliest Arthur: Thomas Hughes
        • S2 E2: Verse Drama Meets Opera: John Dryden
        • S2 E3: Burlesque and Verse Drama: Henry Fielding's "Tom Thumb"
        • S2 E4: Defenestrating Lancelot!
        • S2 E5: Empowering Guinevere
        • S2 E6: More Hovey, More Honey
        • S2 E7: Melodrama!
        • S2 E8: Gilbert and Sullivan Do King Arthur...Kinda
        • S2 E9: King Arthur and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Play
        • S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia
        • S2 E11: A Philosophical "King Arthur" by Lucy Nordberg
        • S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's "The Tragedy of King Arthur"
        • S2 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: "The Table Round" & "The Siege Perilous" by Emily C. A. Snyder (2019)
      • Season Three >
        • S3 E1: So You Think You Know Soliloquies?
        • S3 E2: Redefining Verse Drama, Pt. 1 - Four Types of Verse
        • S3 E3: Deep Dive: Exploring Hamlet's Seven Soliloquies
        • S3 E4: Deep Dive: Exploring Macbeth's Soliloquies
        • S3 E5: The Villain Soliloquies: Richard III, Iago, Edmund Don John...and Petruchio?
        • S3 E6: "Madness" in Soliloquy:- Re-examining King Lear, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia
        • S3 15: Discovering Character Through Line Breaks - Part 3
    • Bonus Episodes >
      • Interviews >
        • Interview: Tim Carroll
        • Interview: Peter Oswald
        • Interview: Glyn Maxwell
        • Interview: Kasia Lech
        • Interview: Caeden Musser
        • Interview: Deb Victoroff
      • Round Tables >
        • Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder
        • Round Table: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley, Benedetto Robinson
      • BAR(D) TALKS
      • Unhinged Rants
  • Additional Resources
    • Types of Verse >
      • What is Verse?
      • Prose vs. Poetry
    • Meter and Scansion >
      • What is Meter?
      • Rhythm and Prosody
      • Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
      • Prosody (Wikipedia)
    • Contemporary Verse Dramatists >
      • 18th Century
      • 19th Century
      • 20th Century
      • 21st Century
    • Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama
  • Patreon
    • Fractured Atlas