The Dynasts

“The Dynasts” is an English-language drama in verse by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as 'an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes'. Not counting the Forescene and the Afterscene, the exact total number of scenes is 131. The three parts were published in 1904, 1906 and 1908. Because of the ambition and scale of the wor...