Tragic play posters & prints

Shame and Regret, a Tragi-Comic Play French School

Four Tragic Roles School English

Costume Design for the Death of Tintagiles, 1912 Charles Ricketts

King Lear Domenico Morelli

Scene from Act III of 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare Achille Deveria

Scene from the tragedy of 'Semiramis' by Voltaire Louis Jean Desprez

Cordelia led away from Goneril and Regan Ford Madox Brown

Romeo and Juliet, c.1860-70 French School

Illustration of Juliet Discovering Romeo's Body Ludovico Marchetti

The re-enactment of the death of Hamlet's father, Act III, Scene 2 John Gilbert

Ophelia, in Hamlet, by William Shakespeare Anonymous

Phaedra, Oenone and Hippolytus Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

A Scene in Ancient Rome, 1830 Joseph Michael Gandy

Tragic Theatre James Duffield Harding

Illustration by Harold Copping from Hamlet William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens. 1855 Frederick Thrupp

Set design for a tragic scene, 1545 Sebastiano Serlio

Ophelia Drowning Paul Albert Steck

Medea, or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa, 1648 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Group of Comic and Tragic Actors Jean Antoine Watteau

Tragic Figure in Chains, 1800 Washington Allston

Teatro tragico, Pompeii, Italy Anonymous

Il secondo libro della perspettiva (Scena Tragica) Sebastiano Serlio

The Tragic Actor, 1866 Edouard Manet

Spanish Ships Cast Away. VII of Spades from a pack of playing cards English School

The Fatal Disaster at the Star Theatre, Glasgow Anonymous

Death of Phaedra, prepatory sketch for the illustration of Racine's Complete Works, Act V Scene VII, published 1801 Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Ballet Tragique Anonymous

Pompey and Perpenna in the tragedy 'Sertorius' by Corneille, c.1780 Wirscher Wirscher

Thomas Chatterton receives a bowl of poison from Despair John Flaxman

Portrait of Jean Racine, French tragic poet Jean Baptiste Santerre

The Greek Tragedians, study for 'The Apotheosis of Homer' Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues, c.1505 Andrea Previtali

The Death of Lady Macbeth, c.1875 Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti

The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus Michael Chuke

Melpomene, The Muse of Tragedy, Elisabetta Sirani