Plays adapted into operas

tragedy by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

upright=1.2|thumb|A poster for a American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene. Depicted, counter-clockwise from top-left, are: Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches, the aftermath of the murder of Duncan, Banquo's ghost, Macbeth dueling Macduff, and Macbeth.

thumb|Othello and Desdemona in Venice by [[Théodore Chassériau, 1850]]

tragedy by William Shakespeare

play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

play by William Shakespeare

play by William Shakespeare

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice

Shakespearean history play

play by Anton Chekhov

play by Shakespeare

play written by Oscar Wilde

play by Anton Chekhov

play written by Shakespeare

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

1947 US play by Tennessee Williams

play by Friedrich Schiller

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

play written by Luigi Pirandello

play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand

1895 play by Alfred Jarry

play by Pierre Corneille

play by Federico García Lorca (1936)

play written by Friedrich Schiller

Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

Woyzeck () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Franzos, and was first performed at the Residence Theatre in Munich on 8 November 1913.

1784 play by Friedrich Schiller

play by Friedrich Schiller

1944 play by Jean-Paul Sartre

1804 play written by Friedrich Schiller

play by Federico García Lorca

satirical play by Molière

play written by A. Strindberg

play written by Alexander Pushkin

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

1953 play by Arthur Miller

tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

French play by Pierre Beaumarchais

Yerma is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934 and first performed that same year. García Lorca describes the play as "a tragic poem." The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime.

tragedy by Victor Hugo

play by Victor Hugo

play by Albert Camus

comedy play by Molière

play by Samuel Beckett

play written by S. Ansky

play by Tirso de Molina

Comedy written by Carlo Goldoni

comédie-ballet by Molière

play by Maurice Maeterlinck

play by Alexander Pushkin

1830 poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin

play by Eugene O’Neill

French play by Pierre Beaumarchais

play by Alexander Ostrovsky

play by Eugene O'Neill