 Maurice Maeterlinck, also a symbolist playwright, wrote "The Blind" (1890), "The Intruder" (1890), "Interior" (1891), "Pelléas and Mélisande" (1892), and "The Blue Bird" (1908).Eugénio de Castro is considered one of the introducers of Symbolism in the Iberian Peninsula.He wrote "Belkiss", "dramatic prose-poem" as he called it, about the doomed passion of Belkiss, The Queen of Sheba, to Solomon, depicting in an avant-guard and violent style the psychological tension and recreating very accurately the tenth century BC Israel.