French tragedy plays

1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils

Phèdre (; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.

Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse. It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Marie Thérèse, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Comédiens", with Thérèse Du Parc in the title role. The company gave the first public performance two days later in the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Andromaque, the third of Racine's plays, written at the age of 27, established its author's reputation as one of the great playwrights in France.

play by Voltaire

play by Samuel Beckett

play written by Pierre Corneille

Berenice () is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. Berenice was not played often between the 17th and the 20th centuries.

tragedy by Pierre Corneille written for the Théâtre du Marais in 1639

play written by Florian Zeller

tragic play by Jean Racine

Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in the Orangerie in Versailles on August 18, 1674, as part of the fifth of the royal Divertissements de Versailles of Louis XIV to celebrate the conquest of Franche-Comté. Later in December it was triumphantly revived at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, home of the royal troupe of actors in Paris.

Athalie (, sometimes translated Athalia) is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to Oedipus Rex in beauty, with "the true God added." August Wilhelm Schlegel thought Athalie to be "animated by divine breath"; other critics have regarded the poetics of drama in the play to be superior to those of Aristotle.

tragedy by Voltaire

play by Jean Racine

tragedy by Jean Racine

Rodogune is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Pierre Corneille. It was first performed in 1644 and published in 1647.

play by Voltaire

Médée is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille, first performed in 1635 at the Théâtre du Marais. Corneille was inspired by both the Seneca and Euripedes tellings.

tragedy by Jean Racine

Nicomède is a tragedy by French dramatist Pierre Corneille, first performed in 1651.

tragedy by Jean Racine

five-act tragedy by Voltaire

play by Jean Giraudoux

play written by Voltaire

play by Pierre Corneille

play written by Étienne Jodelle

thumb|Voltaire Mérope 1744 thumb|Jean-Michel Moreau: Illustration of Mérope 1783 Mérope (original French title: La Mérope Française) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy Merope (1713) by Scipione Maffei, dating from 1736/1737. The play premiered in 1743 and first appeared in print in 1744.

play written by Leconte de Lisle