Tragedy
Big Lake
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
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…
Esther
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…
Pelléas and Mélisande
Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed…
Medea
Medea es una de las 19 obras que se conservan del gran tragediógrafo griego Eurípides. Se representó por primera vez en…
Sonnenuntergang
Hans Bethge studierte unter anderem auch Philosophie, was ihn wohl mit zu diesem Drama inspirierte. Er zieht dabei einen tragischen Vergleic…
Paolo and Francesca
The tragic and adulterous story of Paolo and Francesca was originally immortalized by Dante in his "Divine Comedy". Since then, t…
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 …