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Hamlet

William Shakespeare · 192 pages

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyDepressionSuicide Content
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Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller · 139 pages

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupporta

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavySuicide ContentDepression
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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams · 145 pages

Williams's classic play begins with Blanche DuBois's arrival in New Orleans to stay with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. The determinedly genteel Blanche is shocked by their lower-class lifestyle—and by Stanley's frequently aggressive behavior. As Blanche's secrets catch up with her, a seedy reality trumps her love for romance.

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyTragicDepression
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Oedipus Rex

Sophocles · 115 pages

Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavySuicide ContentTragic
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The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen · 111 pages

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyTragicSuicide Content
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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Suicide ContentDepressionTragicMother and Daughter
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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 258 pages

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior

Suicide ContentDepressionTragicMother and Daughter
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Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates · 346 pages

DepressionSuicide ContentTragicDialogue-Heavy
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Miss Julie

August Strindberg · 82 pages

Stage PlaySuicide ContentTragicDark
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 288 pages

Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through

Suicide ContentDepressionTragicDark
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The Seagull

Anton Chekhov · 90 pages

Stage PlaySuicide ContentTragicDepression
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The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy · 160 pages

Stage PlaySuicide ContentDialogue-HeavyDark
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Steel Magnolias

Robert Harling · 79 pages

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyMother and DaughterChronic Illness
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4.48 Psychosis

Sarah Kane · 43 pages

4.48 Psychosis is the last play by Sarah Kane, who died aged 28 in February 1999. By request of the Estate of Sarah Kane, all details of this play are strictly embargoed until its premiere at the Royal Court in July.

Stage PlaySuicide ContentDepressionDark
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August: Osage County

Tracy Letts · 112 pages

A portrait of a dysfunctional American family at its finest - and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed.

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyMother and DaughterDark
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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 736 pages

Suicide ContentTragicDepressionDark
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The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides · 249 pages

Suicide ContentDepressionTragicDark
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Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger · 208 pages

First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.

Dialogue-HeavySuicide ContentDepressionTragic
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Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw · 112 pages

From the book:Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No author who has ever known the exultation of sending the Press into an hysterical tumult of protest, of moral pani

Stage PlayMother and DaughterDialogue-HeavyFemale Lead
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Lie Down in Darkness

William Styron · 400 pages

The story is set out in the south. The Loftis family members are waiting for the coffin of their daughter Peyton. The novel goes back in time through flashbacks and recollections uncovering truths and events leading to Peyton's suicide. Lie Down In Darkness is a post-modernist novel, a post-war account of the human state, an age of alienation, decay and meaninglessness. Neither society nor family

Suicide ContentTragicMother and DaughterDepression
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Go Ask Alice

Anonymous · 185 pages

You Can't Ask Alice Anything Anymore But you can do something. Read her diary. Strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid. The actual story of a desperate girl on drugs and on the run who almost made it. --back cover

DepressionTragicSuicide ContentDark
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Scorched

Wajdi Mouawad, Linda Gaboriau · 135 pages

Stage PlayTragicMother and DaughterDark
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Antigone

Jean Anouilh · 74 pages

Apre s Sophocle, J. Anouilh reprend le mythe d'Antigone. Fille d'Oedipe et de Jocaste, la jeune Antigone est en re volte contre la loi humaine qui interdit d'enterrer le corps de son fre re Polynice. Pre sente e sous l'Occupation en 1944, cette pie ce met en sce ne l'absolu d'un personnage en re volte face au pouvoir, a l'injustice et a la me diocrite .

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyTragicFemale Lead
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Journey's End

R.C. Sherriff · 114 pages

Stage PlayDialogue-HeavyTragicDark

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