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'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford
  • Author: John Ford
  • Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
One of the most shocking plays produced in England during the reign of Charles I, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore chronicles the disastrous results of an incestuous affair between fatalistic Italian siblings, Giovanni and Annabella. As suitors vie for...
Oroonoko - Thomas Southerne
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Oroonoko - Thomas Southerne
Based on Aphra Behn's 1688 novel (which is one of the earliest novels in the English language), Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko is seen by scholars today as the driving force that kept Behn's work from fading into obscurity. During the eighteenth and...
The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
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The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient Greece during a war between Athens and Thebes, the narrative follows the title characters, Palamon and...
The Libation-Bearers (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
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The Libation-Bearers (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The only extant example of an ancient...
The Tragedy of Macbeth - William Shakespeare
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The Tragedy of Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king. Fired by...
Agamemnon (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
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Agamemnon (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
The play Agamemnon details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, and...
A Yorkshire Tragedy - Thomas Middleton
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A Yorkshire Tragedy - Thomas Middleton
A Yorkshire Tragedy: Not So New as Lamentable and True (1619) tells the gruesome tale of Walter Calverly who stabbed his wife and killed his two young sons in April 1605. This recording is based on the text of the second quarto, which was attributed...
Alcestis - Euripides
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Alcestis - Euripides
  • Author: Euripides
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Alcestis is the earliest surviving play by Euripides. Alcestis, the devoted wife of King Admetus, has agreed to die in his place, and at the beginning of the play she is close to death. In the first scene, Apollo argues with Thanatos (Death), asking...
Orra - Joanna Baillie
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Orra - Joanna Baillie
Considered by her contemporaries a playwright β€œsecond only to Shakespeare,” Joanna Baillie was one of the most critically acclaimed writers of the Romantic Era. The Plays on the Passions, first published in 1798, stands as her undeniable magnum...
Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
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Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton's masterful 17th century tragedy is packed with adultery, incest, intrigue, revenge, and inventive methods for murder. Leantio elopes with Bianca against her family's wishes and tries to hide her in the house he shares with his...
When We Dead Awaken - Henrik Ibsen
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When We Dead Awaken - Henrik Ibsen
When We Dead Awaken (1899) is the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Dreamlike and highly symbolic, the play charts the dissolution of sculptor Arnold Rubek's marriage to Maia, her flirtation with Ulfheim, and his involvement with the...
The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont
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The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont
Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor is recently married - but not to his troth-plight love...
Othello - William Shakespeare
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Othello - William Shakespeare
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago,...
Hedda Gabler (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
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Hedda Gabler (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodding, pedantic academic. Upon moving into her new Christiania home, she soon discovers that Thea Elvsted, an...
All for Love; or, The World Well Lost - John Dryden
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All for Love; or, The World Well Lost - John Dryden
All for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual...
Orestes - Euripides
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Orestes - Euripides
In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands. Despite Apollo’s earlier prophecy, Orestes finds himself tormented by Erinyes or Furies to the...
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
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The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or...
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to...
Brand - Henrik Ibsen
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Brand - Henrik Ibsen
Inflamed by what he saw as his Norwegian homeland's shocking betrayal of Denmark after the Prussian invasion of Danish territory, Ibsen wrote "Brand" as an indictment of human complacency and rigidity of mind. Composing this "dramatic poem" from his...
The White Devil - John Webster
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The White Devil - John Webster
John Webster's The White Devil (1612) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy, replete with adultery, murder, ghosts, and violence. The Duke of Brachiano and Vittoria Corombona decide to kill their spouses, Isabella and Camillo, in order to be together, aided...
Romeo and Juliet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths" ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic...
The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3) - William Shakespeare
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The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3) - 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 tells the tale of the ageing King Lear, a British monarch who disposes of his vast kingdom by giving...
Electra (Murray Translation) - Euripides
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Electra (Murray Translation) - Euripides
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemnon. Married platonically to a good-hearted but poverty-stricken old peasant, she longs for the return of her...
Love and Intrigue - Friedrich Schiller
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Love and Intrigue - Friedrich Schiller
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to...
Phaedra - Jean Racine
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Phaedra - Jean Racine
In the court of Louis XIV, adaptations of Greek tragedies were very popular. This play, heavily influenced by Euripides' Hippolytus, deals with love that violates social taboos. Note: In Racine's work, a new "scene" begins whenever a character...
Trachiniai (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
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Trachiniai (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: ΀ραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. The story begins with Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, relating the story of her early life and...
Richard III - William Shakespeare
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Richard III - William Shakespeare
Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeare's earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the bloody career of Richard, Duke of Gloucester. As the play opens, the...
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural...
The Tragedy of Mariam - Elizabeth Cary
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The Tragedy of Mariam - 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 to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live) about Mariam, the second wife of...
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
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Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed "a dirty deed done in public" by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other...
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
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Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was passionately interested in the history of Rome, as is evident from plays like Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. His tragedy Coriolanus was probably written around 1605-07, and dramatizes the rise and fall of...
King Lear (version 2) - William Shakespeare
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King Lear (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The...
Little Eyolf - Henrik Ibsen
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Little Eyolf - Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmers family: the father, Alfred, his wife Rita, their crippled nine-year-old son Eyolf, and Alfred's sister Asta. As the play begins, Alfred has just gotten back from a trip to the...
Hamlet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
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Hamlet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's...
Antigone - Sophocles
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Antigone - Sophocles
This is the final installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother's body and is sentenced to death. She clashes...
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 - Christopher Marlowe
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Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 - 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 emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a...
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
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Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in debt. And his best friend’s...
The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
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The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC. It was long thought to be the earliest surviving play by Aeschylus due to the relatively...
Ghosts (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
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Ghosts (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by Kristingj) Cast: Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving: Rhonda Federman Oswald Alving, her son, a...
Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
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Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces that rule the Universe. As one of...
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