 Also in 1866, Urechia published an essay of fables, which centered on the work of Dimitrie Ţichindeal (or "Chichindeal"), an early 19th-century poet from Banat.In 1867, he completed work on his best-known literary contribution to local theater, a three-act drama or melodrama inspired by the 17th-century life of Costea Bucioc.The same year and the next, he published "Despre elocinţa română" ("On Romanian Eloquence"), "Poezia în faţa politicei" ("Poetry vs.