Plays about queens

play by William Shakespeare

tragedy by William Shakespeare

Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa

play by Friedrich Schiller

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

tragedy by Victor Hugo

French play by Jean Racine

tragedy by Heinrich von Kleist

opera by Paul Dessau

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 Peter Morgan