Tragedy

Iphigenia

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Jean Racine


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 "…

Tristan and Isolde

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Richard Wagner


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…

Andromache

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Euripides


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

Bajazet

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Jean Racine


"The time to which this tragedy relates is much later than that of any other of Racine's historical plays. The capture of Babylon (or r…

Ion

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Thomas Noon Talfourd


This drama, set in Ancient Greece, was written by a Victorian lawyer who was a close friend of Charles Dickens. When collected into book for…

Thyestes

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


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

Velasco

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Epes Sargent Iv


Inspired by the tale of El Cid, U.S. author Epes Sargent created this drama about a knight forced to conceal his true identity. The play de…

Life is a Dream

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Pedro Calderón De La Barca


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…

Gyges und sein Ring

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Friedrich Hebbel


In diesem Drama geht es um eine Männerfreundschaft, Liebe, Macht, Stolz, missbrauchtes Vertrauen, verlorene Ehre und Rache. - Summary b…

Enrico IV

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Luigi Pirandello


Durante una sfilata in costume dell'inizio del novecento, rievocativa del celebre episodio dell'imperatore Enrico IV di Franconia a Canossa…

The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice

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Susannah Centlivre and Susanna Centlivre


Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender ch…

Adrienne Lecouvreur

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Ernest Legouve


This drama was written in 1848 for the great French tragedienne, Rachel, by Eugene Scribe and his writing partner, Ernest Legouve. Scribe is…

Don Carlos

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Friedrich Schiller


Don Carlos is a Dramatic Poem in 5 acts written by the German classical playwright and poet Friedrich von Schiller. It was first performed o…

The Lords of Ellingham

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Henry Spicer


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…

Pelléas and Mélisande

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Maurice Maeterlinck


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

Troades

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


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…

Paolo and Francesca

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Stephen Phillips


The tragic and adulterous story of Paolo and Francesca was originally immortalized by Dante in his "Divine Comedy". Since then, t…

Sonnenuntergang – eine Dichtung

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Hans Bethge


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

Ode To Joy


Michael Swartzentruber


This sermon was preached by Rev. Michael Swartzentruber on December 11th, 2011 at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Richmond, …

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