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What plays did Maurice Maeterlinck write?

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His works include the short story "Le Massacre des innocents" (1886); the plays Les Aveugles (1891, tr. The Blind ), Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), which inspired Debussy's opera (1902), Monna Vanna (1902), and L'Oiseau bleu (1909, tr. The Blue Bird ), an allegorical fantasy for children that denies the reality of death; the essays La Vie des abeilles (1901, tr. The Life of the Bee ) and L'Intelligence des fleurs (1907, tr. Life and Flowers ); and poems.

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