Ballets whose story is taken from a play, a novel or a poem. A work belongs here when the cited article names the literary work that the ballet follows. It excludes ballets built on fairy tales and legends and ballets without a story. The choreographer and composer of such a ballet turn plot and character from the page into movement and music, usually without any spoken word, and the audience is expected to know the source. It excludes ballets based on folk tales, ballets with no story at all and dance dramas drawn from history.
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Pillar of Fire (Wikipedia)
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The music was inspired by a nineteenth century German poem, "Weib und die Welt" (Woman and the World), that is set in a time when a child born out of wedlock was not condoned in polite society.
Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) - Wikipedia
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Both the music and the ballet were inspired by the poem L'Après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. The costumes, sets and programme illustrations were designed by the painter Léon Bakst.
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia
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Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
Don Quixote (ballet) - Wikipedia
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Don Quixote is a ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
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