Tragedy

The Persians

by Aeschylus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court awa…

Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus Read by Expatriate 4.4
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of …

Ghosts

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his conte…

Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen Read by Expatriate 4.8
Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodd…

Electra

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hu…

Onkel Toms Hütte

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel 4.6
Der Roman schildert das Schicksal einer Reihe afroamerikanischer Sklaven und ihrer jeweiligen Besitzer in den vierziger Jahren des 19. Jahrh…

Antigone

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliber…

The Revenger's Tragedy

by Thomas Middleton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good." The Revenger's Tragedy is a bloody Jacobean drama centering on Vindici, whose bel…

Andromache

by Jean Racine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
In this tragedy [about part of the aftermath of the Trojan War], which made its appearance in 1667, there is a more intricate plot than is u…

Faust I

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

Pierre and Luce

by Romain Rolland Read by Roger Melin 3.9
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted…

A Florentine Tragedy

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt…

Life is a Dream

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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…

Britannicus

by Jean Racine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Britannicus is son and heir of the Roman emperor Claudius. However, this does not please Nero, who wants both throne and Britannicus's fianc…

Othello

by Wilhelm Hauff Read by Hokuspokus 4.6
Vor dem Hintergrund der Oper "Othello" entwickelt Hauff seine Geschichte über einen Mord, einen Geist und eine verbotene Lieb…

The History of Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The History of Troilus and Cressida has long baffled critics and audiences alike for its inconsistent tone, which ranges from bawdy comedy t…

Dido, Queen of Carthage

by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Dido, Queen of Carthage is the earliest of Christopher Marlowe's known plays, possibly written while he was still a student at Corpus Christ…

Cain

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Cain: A Mystery is Lord Byron's retelling of the classical Biblical story from the point of view of its antagonist. Undoubtedly influenced b…

Mithridates

by Jean Racine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Another tragedy by Racine, based on the historical character and career of Mithridates circa 63 BCE. Closing with sorrow and lamentation and…

The Cenci

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Written in 1819, but not first staged for over hundred years after it was written due to controversial themes of incest and parricide, it wa…

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