Tragedy
The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation)
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Aeschylus
The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime …
The Father
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August Strindberg
The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura a…
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2
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Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian empero…
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) …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 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 …
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 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…
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…
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…