THE WORLD'S
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ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge
J. A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia
VOL. XVII
POETRY AND DRAMA

[Table of Contents]

Portrait of Molière

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]

Molière

The Doctor in Spite of Himself

[362]

(Molière: Continued in Vol. XVIII)

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