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The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition

Robert Browning · Public domain text

830,949 words · about 58 h 11 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

Text only · 2 illustrations omitted. Illustrated source.

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The text of The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #50954. It is in English and public domain in the United States. Edited by Horace Elisha Scudder. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Author
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
Language
English
Subjects
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889, English poetry › 19th century, English drama › 19th century
Length
830,949 words · about 58 h 11 min
Sections
53 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (53)
  1. Opening about 3 h 44 min
  2. Act I about 10 min
  3. Act I, Scene II — Whitehall. about 11 min
  4. Act II, Scene I — (As in Act I. Scene 1.) about 4 min
  5. Act II, Scene II — Whitehall. about 11 min
  6. Act III, Scene I — Opposite Westminster Hall. about 2 min
  7. Act III, Scene II — Whitehall. about 9 min
  8. Act III, Scene III — The Antechamber of the House of Lords. about 4 min
  9. Act IV, Scene I — Whitehall. about 5 min
  10. Act IV, Scene II — A passage adjoining Westminster Hall. about 7 min
  11. Act IV, Scene III — Whitehall. about 4 min
  12. Act V, Scene I — Whitehall. about 2 min
  13. Act V, Scene II — The Tower. about 3 h 27 min
  14. Introduction about 1 h 1 min
  15. Part I about 11 min
  16. Part II about 19 min
  17. Part I about 14 min
  18. II. D'ORMEA seated, folding papers he has been examining. about 1 h 57 min
  19. Act I about 13 min
  20. Act II about 13 min
  21. Act III about 12 min
  22. Act IV about 12 min
  23. Act V about 15 min
  24. Act I about 4 min
  25. Act I, Scene II — A saloon in the Mansion. about 6 min
  26. Act I, Scene III — MILDRED'S Chamber. A painted window overlooks the Park. MILDRED and GUENDOLEN about 9 min
  27. Act II about 16 min
  28. Act III about 8 min
  29. Act III, Scene II — MILDRED'S Chamber. MILDRED alone about 7 min
  30. Act I about 13 min
  31. Act II about 13 min
  32. Act III about 14 min
  33. Act IV about 15 min
  34. Act V about 2 h 20 min
  35. Act I about 14 min
  36. Act II about 25 min
  37. Act I about 13 min
  38. Act II about 12 min
  39. Act III about 13 min
  40. Act IV about 11 min
  41. Act V about 5 h 53 min
  42. Epilogue about 7 h 20 min
  43. The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition (part 12 of 21) about 7 h 1 min
  44. The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition (part 13 of 21) about 2 h 37 min
  45. Prologue about 1 h 33 min
  46. Epilogue about 3 h 46 min
  47. Prologue about 1 h 18 min
  48. Epilogue about 4 h 52 min
  49. Prologue about 56 min
  50. Epilogue about 1 h 58 min
  51. Prologue about 56 min
  52. Epilogue about 1 min
  53. Appendix about 1 h 21 min

The opening of Act I

SCENE I. A House near Whitehall. HAMPDEN, HOLLIS, the younger VANE, RUDYARD, FIENNES and many of the Presbyterian Party: LOUDON and other Scots Commissioners.

Vane. I say, if he be here--

Rudyard. (And he is here!)--

Hollis. For England's sake let every man be still
Nor speak of him, so much as say his name,
Till Pym rejoin us! Rudyard! Henry Vane!
One rash conclusion may decide our course
And with it England's fate--think--England's fate!
Hampden, for England's sake they should be still!

Vane. You say so, Hollis? Well, I must be still.
It is indeed too bitter that one man,
Any one man's mere presence, should suspend
England's combined endeavor: little need
To name him!

Rud. For you are his brother, Hollis!

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