Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "Tragedies (Drama)" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 52 different scripts in our archive, has produced a remarkable variety of theatrical solutions. Reading them in proximity to one another is one of the more useful comparative exercises a student of dramatic writing can do, because the contrasts in tone, structure, and resolution show how much choice a playwright really has, even when the underlying subject is the same. The list below collects the works in our library that catalogue indexers identified with this subject; in some cases the connection is overt and in others oblique, but in every case the thematic affinity is real and worth pursuing.
All plays on this topic (52)
- Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes — 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 Maids Tragedy — by Francis Beaumont
- The Robbers — by Friedrich Schiller
- Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts — by Henrik Ibsen
- Ghosts — by Henrik Ibsen
- Phaedra — by Jean Racine
- Egmont — 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
- Psyche — by Molière
- The Duchess of Padua — by Oscar Wilde
- Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act — by Oscar Wilde
- Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone — by Sophocles
- Philoktetes — 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