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The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War

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Jean Racine


"The reign of Louis XIV. in France, like the age of Pericles at ancient Athens, was remarkable for literary excellence no less than for…

Mithridates

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Jean Racine


Another tragedy by Racine, based on the historical character and career of Mithridates circa 63 BCE. Closing with sorrow and lamentation and…

Cato

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Joseph Addison


Joseph Addison is known mostly for his periodical, "The Spectator", written with his friend Richard Steele. But he found time to w…

Gretchen

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W. S. Gilbert


About as far from a rollicking Gilbert and Sullivan musical as you can get: this is Gilbert's tragic version of Goethe's Faust. - Summary b…

The Cenci

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


Written in 1819, but not first staged for over hundred years after it was written due to controversial themes of incest and parricide, it wa…

Berenice

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Jean Racine


Titus, emperor of Rome, wants to marry Berenice, queen of Palestine, but decides that Rome will not be able to handle having him marry a for…

Balladyna

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Juliusz Słowacki


Balladyna mieszka wraz z siostrą, Aliną, oraz matką w chacie w lesie. Ich dni przemijają na pracy w polu, ale Balladyna chce więcej od życia…

The Gamester

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Edward Moore


The Gamester is Edward Moore's most famous work, and while it has fallen into relative obscurity in the last century, at the time it marked …

Agamemnon

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Agamemnon is a verse tragedy of 1012 lines written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger in the 1st Century CE and based on the Greek L…

Iphigenia

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Jean Racine


Racine's version of the time-honored story of Iphigenia was acted for the first time in 1674. The model upon which it is shaped is the "…

Ion

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Thomas Noon Talfourd


This drama, set in Ancient Greece, was written by a Victorian lawyer who was a close friend of Charles Dickens. When collected into book for…

Velasco

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Epes Sargent Iv


Inspired by the tale of El Cid, U.S. author Epes Sargent created this drama about a knight forced to conceal his true identity. The play de…

Tristan and Isolde

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Richard Wagner


The Libretto of Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan and Isolde, translated into English by John P Jackson, is here presented as a spoken dr…

Andromache

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Euripides


Andromache is a Classical Greek verse tragedy written by Euripides in the 5th century BCE.When Troy was taken by the Greeks, Andromache, wif…

Bajazet

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Jean Racine


"The time to which this tragedy relates is much later than that of any other of Racine's historical plays. The capture of Babylon (or r…

Adrienne Lecouvreur

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Ernest Legouve


This drama was written in 1848 for the great French tragedienne, Rachel, by Eugene Scribe and his writing partner, Ernest Legouve. Scribe is…

Life is a Dream

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca


Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is a Spanish-language verse drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. First published in 1636, t…

Gyges und sein Ring

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Friedrich Hebbel


In diesem Drama geht es um eine Männerfreundschaft, Liebe, Macht, Stolz, missbrauchtes Vertrauen, verlorene Ehre und Rache. - Summary b…

The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice

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Susannah Centlivre and Susanna Centlivre


Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender ch…

Oedipus

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Oedipus is a Latin verse tragedy written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger. It is based on the Greek legend of Oedipus and his marr…

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