Known principally for Bruges-la-Morte , a key work of Belgian symbolism, Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898) is also the author of other works worthy of modern study. His colections of poetry, his plays, and his other novels subtly rework themes which evoke his native Flanders. This volume contains the texts of two of his plays: Le Voile enacts as a whole network of themes with a connection to Bruges - a veritable summary of the intimism which was the glory of literary and artistic Belgium in the 1890s - while Le Mirage adapts Bruges-la-Morte for the stage, in an attempt to exeteriorize thoughts which in the novel were essentially self-enclosed.