📚 Tragedy

Books with tragedy on their catalogue record, first published between 1493 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject tragedy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,264 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Der Antichrist	Friedrich Nietzsche	1895	385
	Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)	Sophocles	1715	188
	Shakespearean Tragedy	Andrew Cecil Bradley	1904	123
	Sophocles	Sophocles	1832	96
	Tragedies	Seneca the Younger	1493	62
	Die Geburt der Tragödie	Friedrich Nietzsche	1872	61
	Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies	G. Wilson Knight	1930	60
	Tragoediae	Seneca the Younger	1513	53
	Heracles	Euripides	1876	33
	Rodogune	Pierre Corneille	1702	23
	Tragedy	Clifford Leech	1969	22
	The plays of Euripides	Euripides	1602	19
	The story of the night	John Holloway	1961	19
	Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels	Walter Benjamin	1963	19
	The Theory of Drama	Allardyce Nicoll	1900	16
	Greek Tragedy	H. D. F. Kitto	1950	15
	The death of tragedy	George Steiner	1961	14
	La tragédie	Jacques Morel	1964	14
	The supernatural in tragedy	Charles Edward Whitmore	1915	11
	Patterns in Shakespearian tragedy	Irving Ribner	1960	11
	Modern tragedy	Raymond Williams	1966	11
	Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne	Jean-Pierre Vernant	1972	11
	Racine et la poésie tragique	Eugène Vinaver	1951	10
	On Aristotle and Greek tragedy	Jones, John	1962	10
	A review of Hamlet	George Henry Miles	1870	9
	Studies in Shakespeare	Allardyce Nicoll	1927	9
	Tragedy	Frank Laurence Lucas	1929	9
	Hamlet	C. S. Lewis	1942	9
	Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)	Thomas Rice Henn	2011	9
	Two lamentable tragedies	Yarington, Robert	1601	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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