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Cain: A Mystery - George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Cain: A Mystery - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Cain: A Mystery is Lord Byron's retelling of the classical Biblical story from the point of view of its antagonist. Undoubtedly influenced by Milton's Paradise Lost, Byron's Cain is defiant and questioning. In trying to come to terms with the...
The Furies (Morshead Translation) - Aeschylus
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The Furies (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 Life and Death of King John - William Shakespeare
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The Life and Death of King John - William Shakespeare
The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have...
Alcestis (Way Translation) - Euripides
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Alcestis (Way Translation) - Euripides
Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pherae who wins the friendship of the god Apollo. Apollo tricks the Eumenides into an agreement that when the...
Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error - Matthew LEWIS
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Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error - Matthew LEWIS
The second original tragedy written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error is a markedly more serious affair than his melodramatic output, dealing as it does with a fallen woman who is mercilessly blackmailed by...
A Bill of Divorcement - Clemence DANE
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A Bill of Divorcement - Clemence DANE
A Bill of Divorcement describes a day in the lives of a middle-aged British woman named Margaret "Meg" Fairfield, her daughter Sydney, Sydney's fiancé Kit Humphreys, Meg's fiancé Gray Meredith, and Meg's husband Hilary, who escapes after spending...
The History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2) - William Shakespeare
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The History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The History of Troilus and Cressida has long baffled critics and audiences alike for its inconsistent tone, which ranges from bawdy comedy to somber tragedy, as well as its decidedly unheroic and unsympathetic cast of characters. It is also a work...
The Persians - Aeschylus
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The Persians - Aeschylus
  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court await new of the outcome of the Battle of Salamis, and mourn when they find that their king, Xerxes, has lost to...
Creditors - August Strindberg
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Creditors - August Strindberg
Creditors is a tragicomedy by August Strindberg that plumbs the depths of the twisted triangular relationship between Tekla, her husband Adolph, and her ex-husband Gustav. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast: Tekla: Elizabeth Klett Adolph: mb Gustav:...
The Skin Game - John Galsworthy
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The Skin Game - 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 rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his...
Richard II - William Shakespeare
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Richard II - William Shakespeare
Richard II by William Shakespeare is the first of eight plays that portray a historically-informed version of the War of the Roses - beginning in about 1365 and ending with Richard III's death in 1485. Edited by J. M. Smallheer and John Gonzalez....
Hecuba - Euripides
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Hecuba - Euripides
  • Author: Euripides
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Like Euripides' Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow of King Priam, suffers the loss of her daughter Polyxena and her son Polydore, and is hungry for revenge on those who have wronged her. Summary by Elizabeth...
Hamlet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
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Hamlet (version 3) - 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...
The Jew of Malta - Christopher Marlowe
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The Jew of Malta - Christopher Marlowe
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse,...
Medea - Euripides
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Medea - Euripides
Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry...
Romeo and Juliet (version 4) - William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet (version 4) - William Shakespeare
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take...
King Leir and His Three Daughters - Anonymous
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King Leir and His Three Daughters - Anonymous
King Leir is an anonymous Elizabethan play about the life of the ancient Celtic king Leir of Britain. It was published in 1605 but was entered into the Stationers' Register on 15 May 1594. The play has attracted critical attention principally for...
Ajax (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
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Ajax (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scholars regard it as an early work, c. 450 - 430 BC. It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events...
The Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation) - Henrik Ibsen
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The Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation) - Henrik Ibsen
Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, his conscience is still painfully alive, burdening him with guilt...
Antigone (Plumptre Translation) - Sophocles
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Antigone (Plumptre Translation) - Sophocles
A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience. Antigone's heroic resistance to...
Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
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Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Marcus...
La Bohème - Giuseppe GIACOSA
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La Bohème - Giuseppe GIACOSA
In 1830s Paris, four struggling Bohemian artists: the poet Rodolfo, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard, and the philosopher Colline, live poorly, but happily. On Christmas Eve, to celebrate, the four split the month's rent and decide to go...
Electra - Sophocles
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Electra - Sophocles
  • Author: Sophocles
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her achieve her ends. (Summary by...
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
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The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
  • Author: Euripides
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon...
Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation) - Euripides
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Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation) - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the Oresteia, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year in a...
Julius Caesar (version 2) - William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar (version 2) - William Shakespeare
When Julius Caesar returns to Rome from conquering the Gauls, Cassius and his friends are worried that he will try to seize power and make himself emperor. Cassius must act fast. He gathers Brutus, Cinna, and others to stop Julius Caesar and save...
The Master Builder - Henrik Ibsen
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The Master Builder - Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, first published in 1892, is about architect Halvard Solness, who despite personal tragedy (including the death of his two sons) has risen to the top of his profession. He has succeeded partly through ruthless...
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
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The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements...
The Gamester - Edward Moore
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The Gamester - 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 an important shift in the staging of eighteenth century tragedy. More specifically, it was one of the first...
Andromache - Jean Racine
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Andromache - Jean Racine
In this tragedy [about part of the aftermath of the Trojan War], which made its appearance in 1667, there is a more intricate plot than is usual in Racine's plays, and it offers a greater variety of character and motive. Love, jealousy, friendship,...
The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War - Jean Racine
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The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War - 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 military achievements. Like Euripides, Racine confined himself almost exclusively to tragedy.... It was under...
Velasco - Epes Sargent IV
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Velasco - 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 debuted in 1837 at Boston’s Tremont Theatre in a production featuring visiting English actress Ellen Tree (later...
The Tragedy of King Richard II (version 2) - William Shakespeare
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The Tragedy of King Richard II (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Billed by scholars as the first part of the all-encompassing Henriad, Richard II is a richly satisfying probe into the inner workings of monarchical rule and its evolution from being seen as divinely held to a more modern conception that...
Bajazet - Jean Racine
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Bajazet - 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 rather Bagdad) from the Persians by Sultan Amurath IV, on which the catastrophe of the plot depends, occurred only...
Saint Joan: Preface - George Bernard Shaw
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Saint Joan: Preface - George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects Shaw's belief that the people involved in...
Ion - Thomas Noon Talfourd
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Ion - 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 format, “The Pickwick Papers” was dedicated to him. As a Member of Parliament, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd...
Berenice - Jean Racine
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Berenice - 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 foreign queen. Berenice refuses to stay in this case and leaves Rome. Unlike many of the other Racine plays,...
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
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The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
Tom Thumb, small of stature, great of heart. This play was written as a parody of the tragic heroic biography of a great man, filled with biting satire as to people and events of the time. Note as warned by the title that this is not a happy-ending...
Gretchen - W. S. Gilbert
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Gretchen - 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 by ToddHW Cast list: Dominic: David Purdy Anselm: Alan Mapstone Faustus: Mike Manolakes Gottfried: Kurt...
The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice - Susanna Centlivre
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The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice - Susanna Centlivre
Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender changing disguises, climax at masked ball. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Count Bassino, a Savoyard, married to...
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