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William Shakespeare - Richard III
Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeare's earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the bloody career of Richard, Duke of...
Diana Majlinger
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Comedy
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Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya (subtitled “Scenes From Country Life”) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired professor, Serebrakoff, who returns after a long absence with his beautiful...
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John Milton - Samson Agonistes
“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...
Martin Geeson
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William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among...
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John Webster - Duchess of Malfi
John Webster's bloody Jacobean tragedy exposes the decadence of the Italian court. The virtuous Duchess of Malfi, a young widow, secretly marries her steward Antonio, and is subsequently persecuted by her brothers:...
Bellona Times
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Robert Baldwin Ross - Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane
Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of...
Silence
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William Shakespeare - Tragedy of Macbeth
Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth , perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he...
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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (version 3)
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage «star-cross'd lovers» whose «untimely deaths» ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary...
Sam Stinson
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Christopher Marlowe - Jew of Malta
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known...
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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust I
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly...
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William Shakespeare - King Lear
King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion...
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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (version 2)
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two «star-crossed lovers» from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and...
Ancilla
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Frank G. Carpenter
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