Tragedy

Alcestis

by Euripides Read by Expatriate 4.9
Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pher…

Paul and Virginia

by Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre Read by Ellis Christoff 4.9
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly di…

Trachiniai

by Sophocles Read by Expatriate 4.4
Women of Trachis (Ancient Greek: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai; also translated as The Trachiniae or The Trachinian Maidens) is an Athenian tragedy …

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare Read by Sam Stinson 4.6
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge…

Othello

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdem…

The Father

by August Strindberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura a…

Thyestes

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Thyestes is a Latin verse tragedy written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger, here translated into English. It is based on the Greek…

Oedipus

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Oedipus is a Latin verse tragedy written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger. It is based on the Greek legend of Oedipus and his marr…

Electra

by Benito Pérez Galdós Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Originally staged in the Teatro Español in 1901, Electra is a controversial Spanish drama that documents the trials and tribulations …

There are Crimes and Crimes

by August Strindberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Maurice, a playwright on the brink of success, feels so confident in his professional future he proposes to Jeanne, his mistress. However, u…

Strange Love

by Georges Eekhoud 4.8
A Strange Love: A Novel of Abnormal Passion was first published in French as Escal-Vigor in 1899, the English translation nine years later. …

Creditors

by August Strindberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Creditors is a thought-provoking tragicomedy by August Strindberg that explores the complexities of love, betrayal, and the human psyche. Se…

Othello

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Othello is a tragedy about the downfall of the titular hero, Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice. His cunning ensign, Iago, …

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Perhaps no play in William Shakespeare's body of work is more divisive than his first tragedy Titus Andronicus, wherein the titular Roman ge…

Medea

by Euripides Read by Expatriate 4.2
Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. The plot cente…

Caspar Hauser oder die Trägheit des Herzens

by Jakob Wassermann Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel 4.3
Ein Roman über den berühmten Findling Kaspar Hauser (angeblich: 30.4.1812 - 17. 12. 1833 in Ansbach) wurde in der Biedermeierzeit …

Cato

by Joseph Addison Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
Joseph Addison is known mostly for his periodical, "The Spectator", written with his friend Richard Steele. But he found time to w…

The Steel Hammer

by Louis Ulbach Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…

Hippolytus

by Euripides Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by c…

The Suppliant Maidens

by Aeschylus Read by Expatriate 4.1
The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime …

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