Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.

Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Chekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A Jacobean tale of personal vengeance in a morally bankrupt world. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.

One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Italian Court is riddled with corruption in this classic Jacobean tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.