About Tragedy
Tragedy is the form in which a serious action arrives at a serious end. From the Athenian fifth century onward, the genre has been concerned with what people inherit, what they choose, and the irreducible gap between the two. The tragedies in our archive — Greek, Roman, Renaissance, neoclassical and modern — share a structural commitment: each of them holds its protagonist accountable in a way that the surrounding world will not. That accountability is, finally, what theatre audiences have been showing up for since the festival of Dionysus.
All tragedys in the archive (80)
- Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles — by Aeschylus
- The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies — by Aeschylus
- The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes — by Aeschylus
- Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes — by Aeschylus
- Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments — by Aeschylus
- The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus Translated into English Verse — by Aeschylus
- Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A Tragedy — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Chastelard, a Tragedy — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Locrine: A Tragedy — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Sejanus: His Fall — by Ben Jonson
- Count Alarcos; a Tragedy — by Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
- The Saint's Tragedy — by Charles Kingsley
- The Jew of Malta — by Christopher Marlowe
- Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 — by Christopher Marlowe
- Massacre at Paris — by Christopher Marlowe
- Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2 — by Christopher Marlowe
- The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage — by Christopher Marlowe
- The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides — by Euripides
- Hippolytus; The Bacchae — by Euripides
- The Trojan women of Euripides — by Euripides
- Alcestis — by Euripides
- The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse — by Euripides
- The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. — by Euripides
- The Rhesus of Euripides — by Euripides
- The Bacchae of Euripides — by Euripides
- Medea of Euripides — by Euripides
- Hecuba and other plays — by Euripides
- The Maids Tragedy — by Francis Beaumont
- The Robbers — by Friedrich Schiller
- Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- Mary Stuart: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- The Female Gamester: A Tragedy — by Gorges Edmond Howard
- Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts — by Henrik Ibsen
- Ghosts — by Henrik Ibsen
- Athaliah: A Tragedy Intended for Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) — by J. Donkersley
- Phaedra — by Jean Racine
- Esther — by Jean Racine
- Egmont — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust: A Tragedy — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy — by John Dryden
- Justice — by John Galsworthy
- The Duchess of Malfi — by John Webster
- Apocolocyntosis — by Lucius Annaeus, 5? BCE-65 Seneca
- Psyche — by Molière
- The Duchess of Padua — by Oscar Wilde
- A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane — by Oscar Wilde
- Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act — by Oscar Wilde
- Polyeucte — by Pierre Corneille
- The Cid — by Pierre Corneille
- Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy — by Richard G. (Richard Green) Moulton
- Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone — by Sophocles
- Philoktetes — by Sophocles
- The Seven Plays in English Verse — by Sophocles
- Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes — by Sophocles
- The Philoctetes of Sophocles — by Sophocles
- The Spanish Tragedie — by Thomas Kyd
- Socrates — by Voltaire
- Count Julian — by Walter Savage Landor
- King Richard III — by William Shakespeare
- Titus Andronicus — by William Shakespeare
- King Richard II — by William Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar — by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet — by William Shakespeare
- Othello — by William Shakespeare
- King Lear — by William Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of Macbeth — by William Shakespeare
- Antony and Cleopatra — by William Shakespeare
- Coriolanus — by William Shakespeare
- Timon of Athens — by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth — by William Shakespeare
- Locrine — by William Shakespeare
- A Yorkshire Tragedy — by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet The First ('Bad') Quarto — by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 — by William Shakespeare
- The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar — by William Shakespeare
- Arden of Feversham — by William Shakespeare