DRAMA
LATIN DRAMA
Plays written in Latin are a wonderful and much underused study resource for upper level intermediate and advanced students of Latin to gain more 'comprehensible input'.
Reading widely is essential for gaining fluency - these plays were written for public performance - and would have been useless if the audience could not understand them, so the nature of their Latinity, while elegant, is necessarily not as convoluted as would be found in a work of prose fiction.
POPULAR
Drama was very popular during the Early Modern period, and a large number of plays were written for performance in theatres or for private use; we are fortunate that so many play scripts have survived - this was largely because reading plays as literature was popular, and printed scripts were in high demand.
Many thanks to Dana F Sutton for the wonderful Philological Museum and Analytical Bibliography of Neo Latin (Early Modern and Modern) Latin Texts.
Acavedo, Pedro Pablo de S. J.
Aebl, Johannes
Tragoedia Passionis, item Resurrectionis (Ober-Ammergauer Passion)
Alabaster, William (1568 - 1640)
Aler, Paul S. J. (1656 - 1727)
Bertulfus ad Sultano captus per Ansbertam coniugem ope musice liberatus
Innocentia victrix sive Genovefa
Joseph a fratribus venditus, a Deo pro-rex Egypti destinatus
Alexander VII, Pope
Super cathedram principis apostolorum (1659)
Andreae, Johannes Valentinus
Anyés, Juan Baptista (1480 - 1553)
Appleton, Reginald Bainbridge
Ludi Persici Original Plays for the Teaching of Latin.
Armonio, Giovanni
Comoedia Stephanium urbis Venetae genio publice recitata
Arnold, Edward
Cothurnulus, Three Short Latin Plays for the Use of Beginners.
Augustines of Ghent
Ganda ethnica, catholica, Hispanica
Aurelius, Ludovicus
Germanicus tragoedia (no link)
Avancini, Nicolaus S. J. (1611-1686)
Archiducis Austriæe, Principis Pace et Bello Inclyti Virtutes
Ansberta sive coniugis Bertulphi libratrix
Francisus Xavierus Indiarum apostolus
Leopoldi Guilielmi, archiducis Austriae, principis pace et bello inclyti, virtutes
Avianus, Johannes
Bachmann, Christian
Balde, Jacob S. J. (1604 - 1668)
Poesis Osca sive drama georgicum
Balticus, Martinus (d. 1601)
Adelphopolae, drama comicotragicum, historiam sacram Josephi, Jacobi patriarchae filii, complectens
Senacheribus, sive Tragoedia de horribili poena Senacheribi Assyriae tyranni
Barceló, Guillermo
Barthélémy de Loches. Nicholas
Bartolomaeus, Nicolaus
Baxius, Nicasius O. A.
Becker, Johann
Bellamy, Henry (b. 1604)
Benci, Francesco S. J.
Bernarus Bottonius
Casus longi super quinque libros Decretalium
Beyer, Andreas
Editis non ita pridem ludis votibus, tracodiam nunc Iesum Patientem 17. April , ipsiusque typum Iosephum a Fratribus Venditum comoediam 22 April, utramque hora a meridie tertia in auditorio maiori agendas spectandas sexibiturus invitat et rogat M. Andreas Beyer
Birck, Sixt (Betulius, Xystus Augustanus, 1501-1554)
Eva, actio ludicra (nach Melanchthon)
Sapientia Salomonis, drama comicotragicum
Blencowe, John (?)
Mercurius sive Literarum Lucta
Boeckler, Johann
Bonifacio, Juan
Tragicomedia Nabilis Carmelitidis
Bourbon, Jacques Frachet
Brask, Samuel (1613 - 1668 )
Filius prodigus, seu imperitus peregrinans
Brechtus, Levinus O. M.
Brinon, Pierre
L’éphésienne, tragi-comédie (translation of George Buchanan’s Ephesia)
Brooke, Samuel
Brülow, Kaspar (1585 - 1627)
Carmen Exegetico-Dramaticum, De S. Propheta Jona, Et Ninivitarum Conversione
Chariclia : tragico-comoedia, fortunae inconstantiam [...] tanquam in speculo ob oculos ponens. Ex jucunda Heliodori historia Aethiopica ad formam Dramaticam potissimum contracta
Moses, sive exitus Israelitarum ex Aegypto
Bruni (Aretinus), Leonardo (1369 - 1444)
Calphurnia et Gurgulia: comedia
Gracchus et Poliscena comoedia
Bruno, Jacob
Brylinger, Nicolaus
Comoediae ac tragoediae aliquot ex novo et vetere testamento desumptae
Duae lepidissimae comoediae mores corruptissimi seculi elegantissime depingentes
Bucer, Martin
Burnell, Dick
Vesuvius and other Latin Plays.
Burton, Robert (1576 - 1639)
Calaminus, Georg (1547-1595)
Rudolphottocarus: Austriaca tragoedia nova
Campion, Edmund S. J. (1540 - 1581)
Doctor Ironicus and Dialogus Mutus
Campson, Pierre (Petrus Philicinus)
Comoedia tragica quae inscribitur Magdalena evangelica
Carleton, Thomas Compton (1593 - 1666)
Carmelites, Order of (Munsterbilsen)
Carrara, Ubertino S. J.
Casparius, Caspar
Princeps Auriacus sive Libertas Defensa: Tragoedia Nova
Caussin, Nicolas S. J.
Cellot, Louis S. J.
Celtis, Conradus (1459 - 1508)
Chaneau, Gulielmus
Pseudo-Balduinus, peregrinus Langobardus
Chelidonius, Benedictus (Magister Bandinus)
Voluptatis cum virtut disceptatio
Chilianus eques Mellerstatinus
Comedia gloriose parthenices et martiris Dorothee agoniam passionemque depingens
Chisius, Fabius (Fabio Chigi)
Chrestien, Florent
Andromacha Euripidea tragoedia
Jephté, ou le Veu (translation of George Buchanan’s Jepthe)
Christianus Stabulensis
Drama Comicotragicum In Memoriam humanae conditionis, & vitae nostrae miserrimae
Christopherson, John
Chytraeus, Nathan (1543 - 1598)
Ruina turris Sanpetrinae Rostochiensis
Cigorondo, Juan de S. J.
Claus, Anton S .J.
Protasius rex Arymae tragoedia
Publius Cornelius Scipio sui victor tragoedia
Tragoediae ludis autumnalibus datae
Comenius, John Amos
Connibert, Alexander (?)
Paterfamilias evangelicus (1625)
Cossart, Gabriel S. J.
Cowley, Abraham (1618 - 1667)
Crocus, Cornelius S. J. (ca. 1500 - 1550)
Crowther, Joseph (1610 - 1689)
Crucius, Johannes
Crusius, Balthasar
Crusius, Johann Paul
Cruso, Aquila (d. 1660)
Cuffaud, Edward S. J. et al.
Felix Concordia Fratrum sive Ioannes et Paulus (1651)
Gemitus Columbae sive Theophili Lachrymae (1650 or 1652)
Da Cruz, Luis S. J.
Tragoedia de Excidio Hierosolymae per Nabucdonosorem
Da Serra, Pedro
Ludovicus et Stanislaus tragico-comoedia
Dati, Leonardo (1408 - 1472)
Dempster, Thomas (1579 - 1625)
Desbillons, François-Joseph Terasse
Dieterich, Georg
Diether, Andreas
Dieterich, Georg
Dinzl, Vitus S. J.
Spes aurei saeculi (Act II scene iii of Tyrolis pacifica, 1654)
Diogo de Teive
Ioannes princeps, sive unicum regni ereptum lumen
Donati, Alessandro S. J.
Dorp, Martin
Prologue for Plautus, Aulularia (1508)
Drexel, Jeremias S. J.
Drury, William (b. 1584)
Aluredus sive Alfredus Tragicomoedia
Reparatus sive Depositum Tragicomoedia
Elend, Johann Balthasar
Programma dramati oratorio de M. Attilii Reguli supplicio praemissum
Elliott, John R. et al. (edd.)
Records of Early English Drama: Oxford
Enden, Franz van den
Ens, Caspar
Princeps Auriacus, sive Libertas defensa, tragoedia nova
"Eusebius Candidus" (Johannes Placentius?)
Frischlin, Nikodemus (1547-1590)
Operum Poeticorum [...] pars scenica ; in qua sunt comoediae quinque: Rebecca, Susanna, Hildegardis, Iulius redivivus, Priscianus vapulans; tragoediae duae: Venus, Dido.
Rebecca comoedia nova et sacra
Susanna comoedia nova, sacra et lectu iucunda atque utilis
Friz. Andreas S. J.
Salomon Hungariae rex dramation
Tragoediae duo et totidem dramatia
Gager, William (1555 - 1622)
Panniculus Hippolyto Senecae Tragoediae Assutus with Momus and Epilogus Responsivus
Panniculus Hippolyto Senecae Tragoediae Assutus with Momus and Epilogus Responsivus
Prologus in Hippolytum, Senecae tragoediam
Gallo, Egidio
Gentili, Alberico (1552 - 1608)
De actoribus et spectatoribus fabularum non notandis
Giannini, Giambattista S. J. (1662)
Gnapheus, Guilielmus
Comoedia: Acolasti titulo inscripta, de filio prodigo
Goethals, Frans
Grégoire de Hologne
Grossbauer, Philipp
Programma analecticum de kakozelia, quo ad actum oratorio ... dramaticum ... de mutatione reip. Israeliticae personatis habendum ... invitat Philippus Großgebauer
Grünspeck, Joseph (1473 - 1532)
Comedie utilissime, omnem Latini sermonis elegantiam continentes
Grysar, Karl Joseph
De Doriensium comoedia quaestiones scripsit: atque Epicharmi et Italicae ..
Guarnas, Andrea (1470 - 1517)
Guinsius, Vincentius S. J.
Ignatius in Monte Serrato arma mutans, drama ideo-practicum (1622)
Poesis heroica, elegiaca, lyrica, epigrammatica...item dramatica
Gwinne, Matthew (d. 1627)
Vertumnus, sive annus recurrens
Hacket, John
Hädebrand, Johann
Pseudofredericus comoedia nova
Hädesheim, Franz
Harmonius, Joannes
Hasenberg, Johannes
Ludus ludentem Luderum ludens, quo Johannes bergius Bohemus in Bacchanalibus Lypsiae omnes ludificantem Ludionem omnibus ludendum exhibuit
Hauner, Mathias
Secunda peccati declinatio. in scenam data a rudimentis Burghusianis mense Iunio MDCCLXI.
Hausted, Peter
Senile odium: comoedia, Cantabrigiae publice academicis recitata in collegio reginali, ab ejusdem collegii juventute
Haym, Konrad
De puerorum in re scaenica Graecorum partibus
Hayneccius, Martin (1545 - 1611)
Almansor, sive ludus literarius : Comoedia
Drey newe, schöne und lustige comoedien
Hansoframea sive Momoscopus, comoedia nova
Hegate, William
Hegendorff, Christoph (1500 -- 1540)
Comoedia nova de duobus adolescentibus
Declamatio qua commendatur Horatii Tergemini factum quod Libro primo scribit.
Heinsius, Daniel (1580 - 1655)
Auriacus sive libertas saucia (1602)
Henrici, Andreas
Hering, Johann Ernst
De ludis scenicis in republica tolerandis
Hervet, Gentian
Translation of Sophocles, Antigone
Hildesheim, Franz
Hirtzwig, Heinrich (d. 1636)
Jesulus : Comoedia Sacra de Nativitate Domini Et Salvatoris Nostri
Hologne, Grégoire de (Gregorius Holonius)
Laurentius tragoedia de martyrio
Hospeinius, Michael
Equus Troianus, sive de eversione Ilii tragoedia (no link)
Houthemius, Libertus
Hutten, Leonard (1557 - 1632)
“Ignotus Peerdeklontius“
Studentes, sive comoedia de vita studiosorum
Jackson, Henry (d. 1662)
Jansen, Gabriel
Tragico-comaediae sacrae quinque, ac tres fabellae, cum aliquot epigrammatibus
Jaquemot, Jean
Agrippa ecclesiomastrix tragoedia
Ehud sive Tyrannoktonos tragoedia cum aliquot poematis Latinogallicis
Johnson, William (d. 1667)
Joncre, Joannes S. J.
Jouenneaux, Guy
Guidonis Juvenalis,... in Terentium familiarissima interpretatio cum figuris unicuique scaenae praepositis
Jouvancy, Joseph de S. J. (1643 - 1719)
Juan de Valencia
Junge, Joachim S. J. (1587 - 1657)
Jung, Samuel S. J.
Kayser, Isfrid
Mancipium Ex Mahometano Marianum
Kilius, Tobias S. J.
Davidis aerumnosum exilium et gloriosum effugium
Kirschner , Hermann S. J.
Kitscher, Johann von
Tragicocomedia de Iherosolomitana profectione illustrissimi principis Pomeriani
Knaust, Heinrich S. J.
Agapetus scholasticus praedo factus et conversus
Disputatio...de ratione docendi, et an Germanicas comoedias vel tragoedias in Latinis scholis agere conveniat
Köber, Tobias
Anchises exul tragoedia (no link)
Sol Marcus Curtius sive Φιλοπάτρις (1595) (no link)
Koester, Johann D.
De combustione corporis humani spontanea
Kolčava, Karel S. J.
Amor principis in subiectos populos seu Philetes
Atheismi poena, su vulgo Leontius
Bene coepta malo fine terminata seu Silandus
Christi persecutor, eius confessor, seu Adrianus martyr
Constantia in fide orthodoxa seu Thomas Morus Angliae cancellarius
Ectypon prosperae adversaeque fortunae, seu Patharitus rex Longobardorum
Exercitationes dramaticae Vol 1
Exercitationes dramaticae Vol 2
Exercitationes dramaticae Vol 3
Exercitationes dramaticae Vol 4
Exercitationes dramaticae Vol 5
Exercitationes dramaticae Vol 6
Ioannes Nepomucenus ecclesiae metropolitana Pragensis
Innocentia vindicata seu Maria Ottonis III coniunx
Iusta belli causa infelicem nacta exitum, seu Conradinus rex Sueviae praelio victus et inique capite minutus
Iustitia gloriose victrix ac inique victa, seu d. Stanislaus episcopus Cracoviae
Maria Auxiliatrix seu Heppenus, Marchenus, Salernus fratres Mariae devoti
Patris nimius in filium sui ultgor, seu Florimundus parricida
Providentiae divinae exemplar, sive Henricus Lupoldi comitis filius
Purpuratus martyr d. Wenceslaus rex
Superbia humiliata et humilitas exultata, seu Alasontus rex
Tragica fortunae metamorphosis seu Stuartae reginae Scotiae primus a consiliis
Tyrannis triumphans et triumphata seu Anglia
Veritras prosperae adversaeque fortunae, su Patharitus rex Longobardorum
Vindex livor sui ultor seu Ulricus de Cilli
La Rue, Charles de (1643-1725)
Laen, Jan Franz van der
Elko, abbas Lidlumensium, tragoedia
Laurenbergius, Guilielmus F.
Pompeius magnus tragoedia (1610)
Laurimannus, Cornelius
Miles Christianus, comoedia sacra
Legge, Thomas (d. 1607)
Lemnius, Simon (writing as Litius Pisaeus Juvenalis)
Macropedius, Georgius (Van Lancvelt, 1486 - 1558)
Asotus Evangelicus seu evangelica de filio prodigo parabola
Hypomone, seu patientia, fabula sacra
Omnes Georgii Macropedii fabulae comicae
Malapert, Charles S. J. (1581 - 1630)
Masen, Jacob S. J. (1606-1681)
Comoedia fabulosa Bacchi Schola eversa
Comoedia historica Rusticus Imperans
Mauritius orientis imperator, tragoedia (1657) (no link)
Palaestra eloquentiae ligatae Vol 1
Palaestra eloquentiae ligatae Vol 2
Palaestra eloquentiae ligatae Vol 3
Tragico-Comoedia historica Iosaphatus
Tragico-Comoedia parabolica Androphilus
Tragoedia Mauritius Orientis Imperator
Maurisperg, Anton S. J. (1678 - 1748)
Mease, Peter (d. 1649)
Adrastus Parentans sive Vindicta (ca. 1620)
Medius, Thomas
Meier, Justus (1566 - 1622)
Merbitz, Johnann Valentin
Micraelius, Johannes (1597 - 1658)
Drama Oratorium Apologeticum Michael adversus Beliadem
Molanus, Johannaes (Jan Van der Muelen)
Moller, Bernard
Γεοργιοδρακοντομαχία: Republica christiana Hoc est Georgii et Draconis pugna: Tragoedia poetica, elegiaca, figurata (no link)
Ποιμανδροσατανομαχία: Ecclesia christiana hoc est Poemandri Episcopi et Satanicae Veneris pugna: Tragoedia parabolica, poetica, elegiaca
Morel, Fédéric (1552-1630)
Alexander Severus, tragoedia togata
Morlini, Girolamo
Hieronymi Morlini Parthenopei novellae, fabulae, comoedia
Mosseus, Hannardus Gamerius
Mousson, Pierre
Muret, Marc-Antoine (1526 - 1585)
Iulius Caesar Tragoedia (1591)
Mycillus, Jacobus
Mylius, Georgius
Nannius, Peter
Naogeorgus, Thomas (Kirchmeyer, 1508 - 1563)
Translation of Sophocles, Aiax Flagillifer
Translation of Sophocles, Philoctetes
Nenningius, Christophorus
Samarites seu Epimetheus restitutus
Nepomucenus, Johannes
Nobilissima Sapientiæ lectio: Vanitas Vanitatum Ex libro æternæ Veritatis desumpta
Noël, François S. J.
Palmerinus, Johannes Laurentius
Pamphilus (Jean Prost)
Pantaleon, Heinrich (1522 - 1595)
Philargyrus comoedia de Zachaeo publicanorum principe
Papaeus, Petrus
Comoedia De Samaritano Evangelico
Parsons, Philip
Paulin Johannes
Philothea, id est anma Deo chara
Paxon, Susan
Two Latin Plays for High School Students (1911)
Petau, Denis S. J.
Usthazanes, sive martyres Persici
Petersen, Eugen Adolf Hermann (b. 1836)
Pirovel, Frederique
Divus Alexander cognomento Carbonarius tragoedia
Divus Canutus martyr tragoedia
De laudibus divi Rumoldi Dublinensium archiepiscopi
Pisani, Ugolino
Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio
Pontanus, Jacobus S. J. (Jacob Spanmüller, 1542-1626)
Porée, Charles S. J. (1675-1741)
Hermenigildus martyr, tragoedia Christiana
Liberi in deligendo vitae instituto coacti
Misoponus sive otiosus, drama comicum
Paezophilus sive aleator, drama comicum
Philedonus sive iuvenis voluptarius a liberiore vita revocatus
Sephnoebus Myrsa, filius Abasis regis Persidis tragoedia
Porterius, Johannes
Prasch, Johann
Rabany, Charles Guillaume
De Goldonio Italicae scaenae correctore
Rader, Matthäus S. J. and Jacob Gretser S. J.
S. Beatus Helvetiorum apostolus primus
S. Uldalricus episcopus Augustanus
Rataller, Georgius
Sophoclis Aiax flagellifer et Antigone eiusdem Electra
Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine Latina redditae
Reicher, Leonhard
Magisterium crucis S. Christophori innocentis In scenam et exemplum datum.
Resch, Joseph (1716 = 1782)
Sacrae meditationes quas per pures tragoedias olim in scenam nunc in lucem publicam dedit
Praemia Aureliani aurea, non aurea
Sacrae meditationes quas per pures tragoedias olim in scenam nunc in lucem publicam dedit
Rettenpacher, Simon OSB (1634 - 1706)
Perfidia punius seu Persseus...victus
Prudentia victrix seu Ulysses...redux (1680) (no link)
Rhodius, Theodorus
Rodríguez, Emmanuel
Romagnus, Jacobus
Rosefeldt, Jacob
Rotallerus, Georgius
Sophoclis Ajax flagellifer et Antigone, ejusdem Electra Georgio Rotallero interprete
Roulers, Adrien de
Ruaeus, Carolus S. J. (Charles de la Rue, 1643 - 1725)
Cyrus tragoedia, dabitur in collegio Claromontano soc. Jesu, ad solemnem praemiorum distributionem
Ruggle, George (1575 - 1622)
Ryley, Thomas
Schlicher, John
Telesio, Antonio (Antonius Cosentinus Thylesius, b. 1482)
Imber aureus (1529) ( no link)
Torlettus, Bartholomeus
Agrippina maior tragoedia (1639) (no link)
Tucci, Stefano S. J.
Vehus, Hieronymus
Pro Divo Maximi. Ro. Se. Aug. Hieronymi Vehi vulgo feus adulescentuli Badensis Boemicus Triumphus
Verardus, Marcellinus
Fernandus servatus tragicomedia
Vergerio, Pietro Paolo the Elder (Petar Pavao Vergerije Stariji, 1370 - 1444)
Vernulz, Nicolas de
Divus Eustachius sive fidei et patientiae triumphus, tragoedia
Gorcomienses sive fidei exilium tragoedia
Henricus Octavus seu schisma Anglicanum tragoedia
Ioanna Darcia vulgo puella Aurelianensis tragoedia
Vertue, Owen
Viperano, Giovanni Antonio
Virdung, Michael
Vital de Blois
Vitman, Fulgenzio (1728-1806)
Vivarius, Jacobus
Petrus praedicans, comoedia sacra
Redemptio nostra: comoedia nova
Volder, Willem de
Vos, Jan
Waldung, Wolfgang the Elder (1554 - 1621)
Orestes (1593) ( no link)
Wallaeus, Theodorus
Divinae iustitiae theatrum sive Maria Othonis III uxor: Tragoedia
Ward, Robert
Fucus sive Histriomastix (1623)
Waterhouse, David (1680 - 1758)
Watson, John
Absalon (MSS in possession of Sidney family at Penshurst)
Watson, Thomas (1555 - 1592)
Weitenauer, Ignaz Frhr. von, S. J. (1709-1783)
Jonathas Machabaeus, Tragoedia
Wichgreve, Albert (d. 1619)
Cornelius relegatus, sive comoedia nova, festivissime depingens vitam pseudostudiosorum
Widl, Rufin
Apollo et Hyacinthus (Mozart Libretto)
Wieseler, Friedrich (1811 - 1892)
De difficilioribus quibusdam Pollucis aliorumque scriptorum veterum locis ad rem scaenicam spectantibus
Wren, Christopher Sr. (1589 - 1658)
Wunst, Andreas
Zamberti, Bartolomeo
Comedia quam lepidissima Dolotechne
Zeiner, Franz Anton S. J.
Innocentia pressa, non oppressa in Ladislao et Mathia Corvinis spectata. die gedruckt, doch nicht unterdruckte Unschuld ; vorgestellet von dem ... Gymnasio der Gesellschafft Jesu zu Ingolstatt
Zevecotius, Iacobus
Ziegler, Hieronymus (ca. 1514 - 1562)
Ophiletes, drama comicotragicum
Regales nuptiae, drama comico-tragicum
Zovitius, Jacobus (b. 1512)
FOR THE DETECTIVES AMONGST YOU:
There are quite a number of play scripts that do not have the author recorded: a great deal of detecive work is needed to uncover the authorship. If you like a challenge, then this will not disappoint in its difficulty.
I will list these unattributed play scripts below.