Tragedies (Drama) books

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is a dramatic tragedy that intertwines the political machinations…

Die Räuber: Ein Schauspiel

Friedrich Schiller

Dieses Werk ist ein dramatisches Schauspiel, das Schiller nicht als reine Bühnendarstellung, sondern als…

The Spanish Tragedie

Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedie is a late‑Elizabethan revenge drama by Thomas Kyd, printed before 1618 and presented…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616

Christopher Marlowe

The work is Christopher Marlowe’s early‑modern tragedy The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, taken from the…

Othello

William Shakespeare

This work is Shakespeare’s tragic drama Othe Othello, set in Venice and revolving around the Moorish general…

Phaedra

Jean Racine

Jean Racine’s Phaedra is a French classical tragedy that re‑imagines the Greek myth of Phaedra, wife of…

The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers is a German tragedy translated into English, centered on the tangled fates…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 continues the sweeping historical tragedy that dramatizes…

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

This volume presents two of Aeschylus’ most celebrated tragedies, “Prometheus Bound” and “The Seven Against…

Justice

John Galsworthy

Justice is a stage‑play by John Galsworthy that opens in the cramped, timber‑lined managing clerk’s room of…

Edipo rey; Edipo en Colona; Antígona

Sophocles

Esta obra reúne tres tragedias de Sófocles, Edipo rey, Edipo en Colona y Antígona, que giran en torno al mito…

Frühlings Erwachen: Eine Kindertragödie

Frank Wedekind

„Frühlings Erwachen“ ist eine Kindertragödie von Frank Wedekind, die im 19.

King Richard II

William Shakespeare

The play opens amid a heated accusation in the royal court, where Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray, two…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that centers on the royal family of Denmark, exploring themes of…

Sejanus: His Fall

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall is a dramatic work that sits at the intersection of tragedy and Roman history,…

The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a dramatic work that belongs to the Shakespearean canon of tragedies, focusing on…

King Richard III

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a historical drama that dramatizes the final years of the…

Arden of Feversham

Arden of Feversham is an Elizabethan domestic tragedy, first entered in the Stationers’ Registers in 1592 and…

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that centers on a monarch’s fraught relationship with his…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

The work is Friedrich Schiller’s dramatic tragedy “The Maid of Orleans,” a stage‑play that opens in a…

Coriolanus

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare