Richard Hovey’s translation gathers Pelléas and Mélisande, in which a mysterious girl found weeping by a spring marries a prince and loves his brother; Alladine and Palomides, another fated love in a dark castle; and the brief Home, where watchers outside a window dread bringing news inside. Maeterlinck’s own French preface opens the book.
The symbolist plays that inspired Debussy’s opera, for anyone curious about theatre of mood and silence. Download the free EPUB.