Tragedy
A Yorkshire Tragedy
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…
The Gamester
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 …
Pelléas and Mélisande
Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed…
Agamemnon
Agamemnon is a verse tragedy of 1012 lines written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger in the 1st Century CE and based on the Greek L…
When We Dead Awaken
When We Dead Awaken (1899) is the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Dreamlike and highly symbolic, the play charts the dissolut…
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It co…
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Considered to be William Shakespeare’s greatest masterwork and one of the most influential, quotable and enduring works in all of literature…
The Rival Queens
By the age of 30, Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, had mastered a vast empire. But the brilliant young warri…
Waste: A Tragedy in Four Acts
Set in Edwardian England, Waste is a story of politics, religion and adulterous scandal. First published in 1906-7, the play was refused by …