Tragedy

The Lords of Ellingham

by Henry Spicer • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

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

by Jean Racine • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

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

by Maurice Maeterlinck • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed…

Medea

by Euripides • Read by Epachuko • 5★

Medea es una de las 19 obras que se conservan del gran tragediógrafo griego Eurípides. Se representó por primera vez en…

Sonnenuntergang

by Hans Bethge • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 1.7★

Hans Bethge studierte unter anderem auch Philosophie, was ihn wohl mit zu diesem Drama inspirierte. Er zieht dabei einen tragischen Vergleic…

Paolo and Francesca

by Stephen Phillips • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.5★

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

by Harley Granville-Barker • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Set in Edwardian England, Waste is a story of politics, religion and adulterous scandal. First published in 1906-7, the play was refused by …