Tragic plays

To Die Upon a Kiss-- Othello is Shakespeare's great tragic play of love, trust, and deceit.

Deception and Shame-- The play opens in the court of Antiochus, king of Antioch.

Fortune's Fool Here is William Shakespeare's brilliant play the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona during a feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

Nature or Nurture-- The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of twins accidently separated and mixed at birth.

Pride and Defeat-- Troilus and Cressida takes place in the seventh year of the Trojan War.

Honor and Glory-- King Henry V has put aside the indiscretion of youth and taken the throne upon his father's death.

Friendship and Greed!

Deception and Pride-- Bassanio, a Venetian nobleman, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia, but he is short on funds.

Love and Deception-- Hortensio and Gremio are competing suitors for the hand of the beautiful Bianca.

Merry Mischief-- Arriving in Windsor with very little money, John Falstaff decides to raise funds by wooing two wealthy, married women.

Magic and Intrigue-- Prospero, a wizard, is the rightful Duke of Milan, but his brother, in league with the King, had deposed him and set him adrift with his 3-year-old daughter Miranda 12 years earlier.

Blood and Revenge-- Titus Andronicus is by far Shakespeare's most violent play.

Love and Fealty-- Two Gentleman of Verona is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.

Honor and Dignity-- Two Noble Kinsmen is based on Geoffrey Chaucer's the Knight's Tale.

Friendship and Trust-- Leontes and Polixenes, friends from childhood, are having a protracted visit for the first time in years.

Mistaken Identity-- Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked.

Loyalty and Heredity-- King Henry VIII covers the period of Henry's reign from shortly after he becomes king to the birth of Elizabeth, who would one day become queen and for whom the play was written.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.

Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's tragedy "e;Troilus and Cressida"e;.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus', commonly referred to simply as 'Doctor Faustus', is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

'Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare' is a collection edited by Edith Nesbit.

Included herein are the seven surviving plays of Athens' pre-eminent playwright, Sophocles, masterfully translated by Lewis Campbell, M.

'The Trachinian Maidens' (also 'Women of Trachis' or 'The Trachiniae') is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles, in which Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, is distraught over her husband's neglect of her family.

Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta.

The Power of Darkness (1886) is a play by Leo Tolstoy.

When young Christy Mahon flees from his family's farm and tells the townspeople he killed his father, they respond in a way he did not expect.

King Lear is a prosperous but older man who plans to distribute his wealth among his three daughters in accordance to their declarations of love.

Julius Caesar was a general and stateman whose favor among the Roman people was viewed as a threat and source of conflict with other consuls.

Macbeth, a successful solider, is visited by Three Witches who claim he will soon become king, but his ascension may be thwarted by other parties.

Othello, the general of the Venetian army, holds much power and influence but becomes the target of an insidious plot to steal his coveted position.

When the prophet Jokanaan is brought to the attention of the princess Salome, he rebukes her interest, which causes her to make a brutal declaration.

Gerald Arbuthnot receives a promotion from Lord Illingworth, a worldly politician who has a sordid history of women, one of whom is Gerald's widowed mother.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a rising political star who's confronted by the unsavory Mrs.

The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.

In The Eumenides, the final part of The Oresteian trilogy, Orestes must face the consequences of his revenge plot.

After receiving an ultimatum from Apollo, Orestes must decide if he'd rather face the wrath of the gods, or the earthly consequences for his actions When Orestes returns home to Agos after hearing of his father's death, he has a quest and a secret.

Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov.

The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play.

Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov.

Ivanov (1889) is a drama in four acts by Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

Though it tells the stories of the defeated, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays features four tragedies that depict both unfortunate demises and the essence of the fighting human spirit.