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Title: The World's Greatest Books -- Volume 17 -- Poetry and Drama

Author: Various

Editor: Arthur Mee
J. A. Hammerton

Release Date: January 10, 2014 [EBook #44640]

Language: English


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THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
BOOKS

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JOINT EDITORS

ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge

J. A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia

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VOL. XVII

POETRY AND DRAMA


WM. H. WISE & CO.




_Table of Contents_


PORTRAIT OF MOLIERE _Frontispiece_

GOETHE (_Continued_) PAGE
Goetz von Berlichingen 1
Iphigenia in Tauris 18

GOGOL, NICOLAI
Inspector-General 30

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
She Stoops to Conquer 39

HEINE, HEINRICH
Atta Troll 50

HOMER
Iliad 66
Odyssey 78

HORACE
Poems 91

HUGO, VICTOR
Hernani 110
Marion de Lorme 123
Ruy Blas 134
The King Amuses Himself 146
The Legend of the Alps 159

IBSEN, HENRIK
Master Builder 171
Pillars of Society 186

JONSON, BEN
Every Man in His Humour 195

JUVENAL
Satires 207

KLOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB
Messiah 217

LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM
Nathan the Wise 226

LONGFELLOW
Evangeline 241
Hiawatha 250

LUCRETIUS
On the Nature of Things 261

MACPHERSON, JAMES
Ossian 272

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
Dr. Faustus 282

MARTIAL
Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Poems 295

MASSINGER, PHILIP
New Way to Pay Old Debts 305

MILTON
Paradise Lost 319
Paradise Regained 342
Samson Agonistes 349

MOLIERE
The Doctor in Spite of Himself 362
(MOLIERE: _Continued in Vol. XVIII_)

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A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at
the end of Volume XX.
_Poetry and Drama_




GOETHE

_(Continued)_




Goetz von Berlichingen[A]


_Persons in the Drama_

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN THE BISHOP OF BAMBERG
GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN FRANZ LERSE
ADELBERT VON WEISLINGEN ELIZABETH, _wife to Goetz_
FRANZ VON SICKINGEN MARIE, _his sister_
HANS VON SELBITZ ADELHEID VON WALLDORF
FRANZ, _page to Weislingen_ IMPERIAL COUNCILLOR
GEORGE, _page to Goetz_ USHER
FAUD
MAX STUMPF, SIEVERS, METZLER, LINK, KOHL,
_Leaders of the rebel peasants_


ACT I

SCENE I. --_Forest; a poor hut in the background_. GOETZ _and_
GEORGE.

GOETZ: Where can my men be? Up and down I have to walk, lest sleep
should overcome me. Five days and nights already in ambush. But when
I get thee, Weislingen, I shall make up for it! You priests may send
round your obliging Weislingen to decry me--I am awake. You escaped
me, bishop! So your dear Weislingen may pay the piper. George! George!
(_Enter_ GEORGE. ) Tell Hans to get ready. My scouts may be back any
moment. And give me some more wine!