TRAGEDY
Reading List
Try to read as many of the following texts as possible. It is acceptable to become familiar with the
‘stories’ of some of the more challenging texts as this will make a huge impact on your knowledge of
TRAGEDY.
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
Richard II
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Shakespeare
King Lear
Shakespeare
The Monk’s Tale/Prologue
Chaucer
Dr Faustus
Marlowe
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie
August Strindberg
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Translations
Brian Friel
Jessie Cameron
Christina Rossetti
Tithonus
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy
The Death of Cuchulain
W B Yeats
Out, out…
Robert Frost
Death in Leamington
John Betjeman
Miss Gee
W H Auden
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Medea
Euripides
Antigone
Sophocles
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Paradise Lost
Milton
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
The Revenger’s Tragedy
Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster
‘Tis Pity she’s a Whore
John Ford
Blood Wedding
Frederico Lorca
Woyeck
Georg Buchner