The Return of the Druses
Written by	Robert Browning
Date premiered	1843
Original language	English
Genre	Tragedy

The Return of the Druses is a tragedy in blank verse by Robert Browning. It was originally published as the fourth number (No. IV) of Bells and Pomegranates in 1843. The manuscript was first named Mansoor the Hierophant.^[1]

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The Grand-Master's Prefect
The Patriarch's Nuncio
The Republic's Admiral
Loys de Dreux, Knight-Novice
Initiated Druses—Djabal, Khalil, Anael, Maani, Karshook, Raghib, Ayoob, and others
Uninitiated Druses, Prefect's Guard, Nuncio's Attendants, Admiral's Force

Time, 14—

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Fahmi, Ismael M.; Dabbagh, Lanja A. (18 June 2020). "The Misrepresentation of The Druse Community in Browning’s Unsuccessful Tragedy: "The Return of the Druses" (1843): An Analytical Study". Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1). pp. 69–72. doi:10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp69-72.
Jaouad, Hédi A. (28 June 2018). "The Return of the Druses: Djabal, Betwixt and Between". In Browning Upon Arabia: A Moveable East. Palgrave Macmillan. pp 127–153. ISBN 978-3-319-92647-6.

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Plays	Strafford (1837) Pippa Passes (1841) King Victor and King Charles (1842) The Return of the Druses (1843) A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843) Colombe's Birthday (1844) Luria (1846) A Soul's Tragedy (1846) In a Balcony (1855)
Poetry collections and poems	Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833) Paracelsus (1835) "Porphyria's Lover" (1836) "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" (1836) Sordello (1840) Dramatic Lyrics (1842, "My Last Duchess", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister", "Count Gismond") Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845, "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix", "Meeting at Night", "The Laboratory", "The Lost Leader") Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850) Men and Women (1855, "Love Among the Ruins", "Evelyn Hope", "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", "Andrea del Sarto", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "A Toccata of Galuppi's") Dramatis Personæ (1864, "Rabbi ben Ezra", "Caliban upon Setebos") The Ring and the Book (1868–9) Balaustion's Adventure (1871) Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871) Fifine at the Fair (1872) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (1873) Aristophanes' Apology (1875) The Inn Album (1875) Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877) La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878) Dramatic Idyls (1879, 1880) Jocoseria (1883) Ferishtah's Fancies (1884) Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887) Asolando (1889)
Related	Browning Society Armstrong Browning Library, collections and papers Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853 sculpture) The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934 film 1957 film
Family life	Elizabeth Barrett Browning (wife) Robert Barrett Browning (son) Casa Guidi

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