Tragedy
Balthasars Nachtmahl
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca
Als Grundlage dieses Stückes diente Pedro Calderón das Gastmahl des Belsazar aus Daniel 5, im Alten Testament.Balthasar feiert e…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Thyestes
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Thyestes is a Latin verse tragedy written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger, here translated into English. It is based on the Greek…
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 …
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 "…
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…
Enrico IV
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Luigi Pirandello
Durante una sfilata in costume dell'inizio del novecento, rievocativa del celebre episodio dell'imperatore Enrico IV di Franconia a Canossa…
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus (version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Perhaps no play in William Shakespeare's body of work is more divisive than his first tragedy Titus Andronicus, wherein the titular Roman ge…
Troades
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Troades (or The Trojan Women) is a Latin verse drama by Seneca the Younger. It is partly based on Euripedes' tragedy of the same name.The lo…
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…
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…
Life is a Dream (MacCarthy Translation)
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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…