Maurice Maeterlinck

**Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck** (juga dipanggil *Comte (Count) Maeterlinck* dari 1932;  di Belgium,  ialah seorang penulis drama, penyair, dan penulis Belgium Flemish tetapi menulis dalam bahasa Perancis. Beliau dianugerahkan Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan pada tahun 1911 "sebagai penghargaan atas kegiatan kesusasteraannya yang banyak-banyak, dan terutama karya-karya dramatisnya, yang dibedakan oleh banyak imajinasi dan keindahan puisi, yang mengungkap, kadang-kadang dengan kedok kisah dongeng, inspirasi yang mendalam, sementara dalam cara misteri mereka merayu kepada perasaan pembaca dan merangsang imaginasi mereka ". Tema-tema utama dalam karyanya adalah kematian dan makna hidup. Mainannya merupakan bahagian penting dalam pergerakan Simbolis.

## Karya

### Sajak
* *Serres chaudes* (1889)
* *Douze chansons* (1896)
* *Quinze chansons* (expanded version of *Douze chansons*) (1900)

### Drama
* *La Princesse Maleine* (*[[Princess Maleine]]*) (published 1889)
* *L'Intruse* (*[[Intruder (play)|Intruder]]*) (published 1890; first performed 21 May 1891)
* *Les Aveugles* (*[[The Blind]]*) (published 1890; first performed 7 December 1891)
* *Les Sept Princesses* (*The Seven Princesses*) (published 1891)
* *[[Pelléas and Mélisande]]* (published 1892; first performed 17 May 1893)
* *Alladine et Palomides* (published 1894)
* *Intérieur* (*[[Interior (play)|Interior]]*) (published 1894; first performed 15 March 1895)
* *La Mort de Tintagiles* (*[[The Death of Tintagiles]]*) (published 1894)
* *Aglavaine et Sélysette* (first performed December 1896)
* *Ariane et Barbe-bleue* (*Ariane and Bluebeard*) (first published in German translation, 1899)
* *Soeur Béatrice* (*Sister Beatrice*) (published 1901)
* *Monna Vanna* (first performed May 1902; published the same year)
* *Joyzelle* (first performed 20 May 1903; published the same year)
* *Le Miracle de saint Antoine* (*The Miracle of Saint Antony*) (first performed in German translation, 1904)
* *L'Oiseau bleu* (*[[The Blue Bird (play)|The Blue Bird]]*) (first performed 30 September 1908)
* *Marie-Magdeleine* (*[[Mary Magdalene (1910 play)|Mary Magdalene]]*) (first performed in German translation, February 1910; staged and published in French, 1913)
* *Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde* (first performed in Buenos Aires, 1918; published 1919)
* *Les Fiançailles* (published 1922)
* *The Cloud That Lifted* (published 1923)
* *Le Malheur passe* (published 1925)
* *La Puissance des morts* (published 1926)
* *Berniquel* (published 1926)
* *Marie-Victoire* (published 1927)
* *Judas de Kerioth* (published 1929)
* *La Princess Isabelle* (published 1935)
* *Jeanne d'Arc* (*Joan of Arc*) (published 1948)

### Esei
* ‘’Our Friend the Dog’’Dodd,Mead &Company, Reprinted Simon and Schuster 1943. 
* *Le Trésor des humbles* (*[[The Treasure of the Humble]]*) (1896)
* *La sagesse et la destinée* (*Wisdom and Destiny*) (1898)
* *La Vie des abeilles* (*The Life of the Bee*) (1901)
* *Le temple enseveli* (*The Buried Temple*) (1902)
* *Le Double Jardin* (*The Double Garden*) (1904)
* *L'Intelligence des fleurs* (*The Intelligence of Flowers*) (1907)
* *La Mort* (*Our Eternity* ,first published in English, incomplete version entitled *Death* ,1911; in enlarged and complete version in original French, 1913)
* *L'Hôte inconnu* (first published in English translation, 1914; in original French, 1917)
* *Les Débris de la guerre* (1916)
* *Le grand secret* (*The Great Secret*) (Fasquelle, 1921; Bernard Miall trans., 1922)
* *La Vie des termites* (*The Life of Termites*) (1926)
* *La Vie de l'espace* (*The Life of Space*) (1928)
* *La Grande Féerie* (1929)
* *La Vie des fourmis* (*The Life of the Ant*) (1930)
* *L'Araignée de verre* (1932)
* *Avant le grand silence* (*Before the Great Silence*) (1934)
* *L'Ombre des ailes* (*The Shadow of Wings*) (1936)
* *Devant Dieu* (1937)
* *L'Autre Monde ou le cadran stellaire* (*The Other World, or The Star System*) (1941)

### Memoir
**Bulles bleues* (1948)

### Terjemahan
**Le Livre des XII béguines* and *L'Ornement des noces spirituelles*, translated from the Flemish of Ruusbroec (1885)
**L'Ornement des noces spirituelles de Ruysbroeck l'admirable* (1891)
**Annabella*, an adaptation of John Ford's *[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]* (performed 1894)
**Les Disciples à Saïs* and *Fragments de Novalis* from the German of Novalis, together with an *Introduction* by Maeterlinck on Novalis and German Romanticism (1895)
*Translation and adaptation of Shakespeare's *[[Macbeth]]* (performed 1909)

## Rujukan

## Bacaan lanjut
* W. L. Courtney, *The Development of M. Maeterlinck* (London, 1904)
* M. J. Moses, *Maurice Maeterlinck: A Study* (New York, 1911)
* E. Thomas, *Maurice Maeterlinck*, (New York, 1911)
* J. Bethell, *The life and Works of Maurice Maeterlinck* (New York, 1913)
* Archibald Henderson, *European Dramatists* (Cincinnati, 1913)
* E. E. Slosson, *Major Prophets of To-Day* (Boston, 1914)
* G. F. Sturgis, *The Psychology of Maeterlinck as Shown in his Dramas* (Boston, 1914)
* P. McGuinness, "Maeterlinck and the making of Modern Theatre" (Oxford, 2000)

## Pautan luar

* The Social Significance of Modern Drama; Monna Vanna, Analysis of the play by Maurice Maeterlinck
* Works by Maurice Maeterlinck at The Online Books Page
* Transcript of the Nobel prize presentation speech
* Video clips from four different productions of Maeterlinck's works
* Edward Thomas. Maurice Maeterlinck (biography). Contents Page.
* PEN International