Tragedy Books

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Cur..

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York re..

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Caste..

All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost - A Tragedy

John Dryden

All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden which is now his best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's pa..

Shakespearean Tragedy

A. C. Bradley

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have..

Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw

Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam, who attempts to come to terms with..

Rosmersholm

Henrik Ibsen

Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884...

Love and Intrigue - A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics or Luise Miller is a five-act play written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). It was his third play. It shows how..