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Bích Câu kỳ ngộ
Bích Câu kỳ ngộ is a Vietnamese Nôm verse romance in lục bát meter telling how the poor scholar Trần Tú Uyên meets and marries the fairy Giáng Kiều.
Cung oán ngâm khúc
Cung oán ngâm khúc, written in 18th-century chữ Nôm script by the poet Nguyễn Gia Thiều, is an extended lament from the perspective of a discarded palace concubine.
Đăm Săn
Đăm Săn, also written Đam Săn, is the great oral epic of the Ê Đê people of Vietnam's Central Highlands, chanted in the khan genre in 2,077 verses.
Kaki
Kaki (กากี) is a Thai verse narrative about Queen Kaki, whose beauty draws three men into rivalry and ends with her set adrift at sea.
Lilit Phra Lo
Lilit Phra Lo (ลิลิตพระลอ) is a Thai narrative poem of the Ayutthaya period retelling the northern legend of Phra Lo, whose love for the princesses Phuean and Phaeng ends tragically.
Lilit Taleng Phai
Lilit Taleng Phai (ลิลิตตะเลงพ่าย) is a Thai epic panegyric poem by Prince Paramanuchit Chinorot of the Third Reign, celebrating King Naresuan's victory in the 1592 elephant duel.
Lỡ bước sang ngang
Lỡ bước sang ngang is a 110-line lục bát narrative poem by the Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Bính, first printed in 1939 and a phenomenon of the Thơ mới era.
Ngo Pa
Ngo Pa (เงาะป่า, "Forest Savage") is a 1905 Thai verse play by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), a tragic love triangle among forest dwellers considered a Thai literary masterpiece.
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp is a 3,644-line Vietnamese narrative poem by poet and physician Nguyễn Đình Chiểu that teaches traditional Eastern medicine in verse.
Phra Lak Phra Lam
Phra Lak Phra Lam (ພຣະລັກ ພຣະລາມ) is the Lao version of the Ramayana, named after the brothers Phra Lam and Phra Lak and treated in Laos as a jataka, a past life of the Buddha.
Reamker
The Reamker, also known as Rāmakerti ("Glory of Rama"), is the Khmer-language version of the Indian epic the Ramayana and a foundational work of Cambodian literature.
Samutthakhot Kham Chan
Samutthakhot Kham Chan (สมุทรโฆษคำฉันท์) is a Thai narrative poem telling the adventures of Prince Samutthakhot and Pintumat, begun under King Narai and completed by Paramanuchit Chinorot about 160 years later.
Sang Sinxay
Sang Sinxay (ສັງສິນໄຊ, also rendered Sinxay, Sinsai, or Sang Sinchai) is a classical Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham and composed between the mid-sixteenth and late seventeenth centuries.
Sin Xay
Sin Xay, more fully Sang Sinxay (Lao: ສັງສິນໄຊ), is a Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham, dated about 1600, and regarded as Laos' national epic.
Thao Hung Thao Cheuang
Thao Hung Thao Cheuang (ທ້າວຮຸ່ງ ທ້າວເຈືອງ), also known as Thao Hung or Cheuang, is a Lao epic poem about a partly historical prince of the Mekong basin.
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên (Truyện Lục Vân Tiên) is a Vietnamese verse narrative in the lục bát meter, written by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu in the early 1850s.
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm verse narrative in lục bát meter, adapted from a Chinese novel about the Mai and Trần families.
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa (範公菊花) is a Vietnamese Nôm verse tale in lục bát meter, written roughly between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries.
The Tale of Phan Trần
The Tale of Phan Trần is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm-script verse romance, probably 18th or early 19th century, telling of lovers betrothed before birth who are separated by war.
Tum Teav
Tum Teav (ទុំទាវ) is a Cambodian tragic love story about the novice monk Tum and the girl Teav, a cornerstone of the Cambodian literary canon.
Wethandaya Pyo
Wethandaya Pyo is a Burmese pyo, an ornate classical verse work retelling the Vessantara Jataka, the tale of Prince Vessantara whose perfect generosity is rewarded with a triumphant homecoming.
Yama Zatdaw
Yama Zatdaw (ရာမဇာတ်တော်) is the Burmese version of the Ramayana, treated as a Jataka story of Theravada Buddhism and regarded as Myanmar's unofficial national epic, with Rama known as Yama and Sita as Thida.
Yuan Phai
Yuan Phai, also known as Lilit Yuan Phai, is a Thai historical epic poem praising King Borommatrailokanat of Ayutthaya for his victory over Lan Na around 1475.