Maurice Maeterlinck

Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist.

Partial Bibliography

Plays

• La Princess Maleine (1889)
• L'Intrus (The Intruder) (1890)
• Pelléas et Mélisande (1892) - his most famous Symbolist drama, made into an opera in 1902 by Claude Debussy
• La Mort de Tintagiles (The Death of Tintagiles) (1894)
• Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)
• The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck (1899)
• Princess Maleine
• The Intruder
• The Blind
• The seven Princesses
• Alladine and Palomides
• Pelléas and Mélisande
• Home
• The Death of Tintagiles
• Sister Beatrice (1901)
• Ardiane and Barbe Bleue (1901)
• Monna Vanna (1902)
• Joyzelle (1903)
• L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird) (1908)
• Mary Magdalene (1910)
• Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde (The Mayor of Stilmonde) (1918)
• The Miracle of St. Anthony (1919)

Verse

• Serres chaudes (1889; Hot House Blooms)
• Douze chansons (1896, in 1900 re-issued as Quinze chansons)

Prose

• Le Trésor des humbles (1896; The Treasure of the Humble)
• La Sagesse et la destinée (1898; Wisdom and Destiny)
• La Vie des abeilles (1901; The Life of the Bee)
• L'Intelligence des fleurs (1907; The Intelligence of Flowers)
• La vie des termites (1926)
• Bulles bleues (1948), autobiography