Faust

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  Faust Part One

  Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie. or Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil) is the first part of Goethe's Faust. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a...
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  Iphigenie auf Tauris

  Iphigenia in Tauris (German: Iphigenie auf Tauris) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides. Goethe wrote his first version of the play in six weeks, and it was first performed on April 6, 1779 in prose form. He rewrote it in 1781,...
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  William Wilson

  "William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It also appeared in the 1840 collection Tales of the...
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  Woyzeck

  Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre repertory....
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  Drums in the Night

  Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wrote it between 1918 and 1920, and it received its first theatrical production in 1922. It is in the expressionist style of Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser. The play—along with Baal and In...

• The Sale of Joseph

• Faust Part Two

  Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy (German: ''Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil'') is the second part of Goethe's Faust. It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death. Because of its complexity in form and content, it is usually not read in German schools, although the first part commonly...

• The Man Outside

  The Man Outside (German: Draußen vor der Tür, literally Outside, in Front of the Door) was written by Wolfgang Borchert in a few days in the late autumn of 1946. It made its debut on German radio on 13 February 1947. The Man Outside describes the hopelessness of a post-war soldier called Beckmann...

• Murderer, the Hope of Women

  "Murderer, the Hope of Women" is a play written by Oskar Kokoschka. Focusing more on the actions and appearances of the characters than their words, it is characterized as an expressionist play. Its performance was received with much criticism, as it was a break from classical drama and part of the...

• Egmont

  Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788. Like his earlier 'Storm and Stress' play Götz von Berlichingen (1773), its dramaturgical structure is heavily influenced by Shakespearean tragedy; in contrast to the earlier work, Egmont's portrait of the downfall of a man...