Tragedy

La vida es sueño

by Pedro Calderón De La Barca Read by Epachuko 5
La vida es sueño, publicada en 1635, es posiblemente la obra de teatro más relevante del barroco español. Pedro Calder&…

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…

Adelgitha

by Matthew Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The second original tragedy written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error is a markedly more serious a…

Balladyna

by Juliusz Słowacki Read by Nela Reinfuss 4.2
Balladyna mieszka wraz z siostrą, Aliną, oraz matką w chacie w lesie. Ich dni przemijają na pracy w polu, ale Balladyna chce więcej od życia…

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…

The Thebaid

by Jean Racine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"The reign of Louis XIV. in France, like the age of Pericles at ancient Athens, was remarkable for literary excellence no less than for…

Gretchen

by W. S. Gilbert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
About as far from a rollicking Gilbert and Sullivan musical as you can get: this is Gilbert's tragic version of Goethe's Faust. - Summary b…

Balthasars Nachtmahl

by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1.8
Als Grundlage dieses Stückes diente Pedro Calderón das Gastmahl des Belsazar aus Daniel 5, im Alten Testament.Balthasar feiert e…

Berenice

by Jean Racine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Titus, emperor of Rome, wants to marry Berenice, queen of Palestine, but decides that Rome will not be able to handle having him marry a for…

Agamemnon

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by LibriVox Volunteers 0.5
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…

Mithridates

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

Andromache

by Euripides Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Andromache is a Classical Greek verse tragedy written by Euripides in the 5th century BCE.When Troy was taken by the Greeks, Andromache, wif…

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…

The Gamester

by Edward Moore Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 …

Enrico IV

by Luigi Pirandello Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Durante una sfilata in costume dell'inizio del novecento, rievocativa del celebre episodio dell'imperatore Enrico IV di Franconia a Canossa…

Tristan and Isolde

by Richard Wagner Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Libretto of Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan and Isolde, translated into English by John P Jackson, is here presented as a spoken dr…

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…

Troades

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Troades (or The Trojan Women) is a Latin verse drama by Seneca the Younger. It is partly based on Euripedes' tragedy of the same name.The lo…

Iphigenia

by Jean Racine Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Racine's version of the time-honored story of Iphigenia was acted for the first time in 1674. The model upon which it is shaped is the "…

Dido, Queen of Carthage

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

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