This graduate thesis is dedicated to female heroes in the works of Croatian Renaissance tragedies. Writers from Dubrovnik marked the 16th century Croatian literature from a diverse spectrum of genres, and one of them is drama which contains tragedies as well. Although in the literary works of this period we recognize the domination of men and women live on the principles of their superiors, in the genre of tragedy the situation is different. Apart from the fact that works carry the names of female characters, the main female heroes are depicted as self-conscious characters who do not give up their attitudes and dreams, no matter what their destiny will ultimately be. In the first chapters of this work there will be talk about drama, the emergence of tragedy and the purpose of its performance in ancient Greece. The development of this genre was contributed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle who devoted much of his Poetics to the tragedy (offering directions on the composition of the genre itself) by influencing many writers and theoreticians with his theory. After defining the notion of tragedy and answering the question of what are the preconditions for defining a certain event as tragic or for which human deed we can tell has led to the tragic fate, the main focus is on the position of tragedy within the renaissance croatian drama. The tragedies were written by Marin Drţić, Miho Bunić Babulin, Dominko Zlatarić, Sabo Gučetić Bendevišević and Frano Lukarević Burina. It’s important to point out that their work are translations of foreign authors or additional modifications of foreign authors works, but they have another common feature - a selection of ancient tragedies where women are main heroes, which tells us not only about the taste of the audience at the time, but that in this genre the writers of Dubrovnik followed European (Italian ) literary streams.