Tragedy Books
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles DickensThe 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 HardyThe 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 DrydenAll 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. BradleyShakespearean 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 ShawMrs. 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 IbsenRosmersholm 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 SchillerIntrigue 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..
Mary Stuart - A Tragedy
Friedrich SchillerMary Stuart is a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Wei..