Tragedy
Bajazet
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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 r…
Ion
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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 for…
Velasco
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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 de…
Dido, Queen of Carthage
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Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe
Dido, Queen of Carthage is the earliest of Christopher Marlowe's known plays, possibly written while he was still a student at Corpus Christ…
Life is a Dream (MacCarthy Translation)
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca
Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is a Spanish-language verse drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. First published in 1636, t…
Gyges und sein Ring
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Friedrich Hebbel
In diesem Drama geht es um eine Männerfreundschaft, Liebe, Macht, Stolz, missbrauchtes Vertrauen, verlorene Ehre und Rache. - Summary b…
The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice
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Susannah Centlivre and Susanna Centlivre
Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender ch…
Adrienne Lecouvreur
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Ernest Legouve
This drama was written in 1848 for the great French tragedienne, Rachel, by Eugene Scribe and his writing partner, Ernest Legouve. Scribe is…
Don Carlos
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Friedrich Schiller
Don Carlos is a Dramatic Poem in 5 acts written by the German classical playwright and poet Friedrich von Schiller. It was first performed o…
Big Lake, A Tragedy in Two Parts
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Lynn Riggs
Betty senses darkness and decay in the world around her, but not in Lloyd. Though he doesn't understand the source and depth of her feelings…
The Lords of Ellingham
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Henry Spicer
Although written in 1839, this Victorian-era drama contains the sort of extreme violence and lack of a firm moral compass that is usually as…
Pelléas and Mélisande
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed…
Esther
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Jean Racine
Esther — the first of Racine's two sacred dramas — is a tragedy in the Aristotelian acceptation of the term, as being concerned with a great…
Sonnenuntergang – eine Dichtung
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Hans Bethge
Hans Bethge studierte unter anderem auch Philosophie, was ihn wohl mit zu diesem Drama inspirierte. Er zieht dabei einen tragischen Vergleic…
Paolo and Francesca
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Stephen Phillips
The tragic and adulterous story of Paolo and Francesca was originally immortalized by Dante in his "Divine Comedy". Since then, t…
Ode To Joy
Michael Swartzentruber
This sermon was preached by Rev. Michael Swartzentruber on December 11th, 2011 at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Richmond, …