Tragedy

Electra (Storr Translation)

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Sophocles


Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) …

Die Braut von Messina oder die feindlichen Brüder - Ein Trauerspiel mit Chören

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Friedrich Schiller


Die Braut von Messina oder die feindlichen Brüder ist ein Drama von Friedrich Schiller, dem der Autor die Gattungskennzeichnung „Ein Tr…

Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

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Euripides


The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of…

Trachiniai (Campbell Translation)

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Sophocles


Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy …

The Witch of Edmonton

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Thomas Dekker


Mother Elizabeth Sawyer is a poor, lonely, and unfairly ostracized old woman with nothing left to lose. Frank is a poor farmer who intends t…

Electra

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Benito Pérez Galdós


Originally staged in the Teatro Español in 1901, Electra is a controversial Spanish drama that documents the trials and tribulations …

The Revenger's Tragedy

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Thomas Middleton


"When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good." The Revenger's Tragedy is a bloody Jacobean drama centering on Vindici, whose bel…

Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)

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Euripides


Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the …

Alexander's Bridge

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a m…

The Maid's Tragedy

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Francis Beaumont


Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius re…

The Tragedy of Mariam

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Elizabeth Cary


The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus …

Rosmersholm

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Henrik Ibsen


Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwor…

The Skin Game

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John Galsworthy


A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rura…

The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3)

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William Shakespeare


Known for its heartrending emotion and shocking violence, The Tragedy of King Lear is seen as one of Shakespeare's towering masterpieces. It…

Seven Against Thebes (Way Translation)

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Aeschylus


Seven against Thebes is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to …

The Steel Hammer

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Louis Ulbach


A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…

Brand

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Henrik Ibsen


Inflamed by what he saw as his Norwegian homeland's shocking betrayal of Denmark after the Prussian invasion of Danish territory, Ibsen wrot…

Beyond the Horizon

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Eugene O'Neill


Beyond the Horizon is a 1920 play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It was O'Neill's first full-length work, and the winner of …

Marion de Lorme

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Victor Hugo


Marion de Lorme is a play about a famous French courtesan with the same name, known for her relationships with the important men of her time…

Paul and Virginia

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Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre


Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly di…

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