Tragedy Books

Chicot the Jester

Alexandre Dumas

This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion..

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel. The novel centres o..

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Agamemnon is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up The Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, followed by “The Libation Bearers” and “The Eumenides”. The trilogy a..

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary sch..

King Lear

William Shakespeare

Out of all the tragedies king Lear is the very finest the story of a king brought low and the cruelty and ungratefulness of two of his daughters mirrored with the sardonic wit and irony of his court f..

Othello

William Shakespeare

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-marri..

Woyzeck

Georg Büchner

Woyzeck is a drama written by Georg Büchner, a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of ..

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranea..