New Drama
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il Sogno di un mattino di primavera
- Octave Mirbeau - Les Mauvais bergers (The Bad Shepherds)
- Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde (not performed until 1921)
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“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
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