Which texts qualify as a "literary tragedy"?

A list of all tragedies in literature is a huge list. I will go ahead and list some of the more famous tragedies in order to keep the list more manageable.  

Shakespeare is a good place to start: 

• Antony and Cleopatra


• Coriolanus


• Hamlet 


• Julius Caesar


• King Lear


• Macbeth


• Othello


• Romeo and Juliet


• Timon of Athens


• Titus Andronicus 

Christopher Marlowe is a contemporary of Shakespeare and has a couple of famous tragedies to his name,...

A list of all tragedies in literature is a huge list. I will go ahead and list some of the more famous tragedies in order to keep the list more manageable.  

Shakespeare is a good place to start: 

• Antony and Cleopatra


• Coriolanus


• Hamlet 


• Julius Caesar


• King Lear


• Macbeth


• Othello


• Romeo and Juliet


• Timon of Athens


• Titus Andronicus 

Christopher Marlowe is a contemporary of Shakespeare and has a couple of famous tragedies to his name, including:  

• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus


• Tamburlaine the Great

John Webster is another good choice for an author of tragedies. He wrote

• The Duchess of Malfi


• The White Devil

More modern literature has plenty of titles available as well:

• 
  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne


• 
  The Crucible by Arthur Miller


• 
  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller