Kịch bản

• Die Räuber (The Robbers) (1781)
• Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love)(Âm mưu và ái tình) (1784)
• Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos)(Đôn Ca-lốt) (1787)
• Wallenstein (1800) (translated from a manuscript copy into English as The Piccolomini and Death of Wallenstein by Coleridge in 1800)
• Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans)(Nữ người hầu trẻ từ ô-len) (1801)
• Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) (1801)
• Turandot (1802)
• Die Braut von Messina (1803)
• Wilhelm Tell (William Tell) (1804)
• Demetrius (unfinished at his death)

Sách sử

• Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung hoặc The Revolt of the Netherlands
• Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Krieges hoặc A History of the Thirty Years' War
• Über Völkerwanderung, Kreuzzüge und Mittelalter hoặc On the Barbarian Invasions, Crusaders and Middle Ages

Dịch thuật

• Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth
• Jean Racine, Phèdre

Văn xuôi

• Der Geisterseher hoặc The Ghost-Seer (unfinished novel, started in 1786 and published periodically, published as book in 1789)
• Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen (On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of Letters), 1794

Thơ, trường ca

• An die Freude hoặc Ode to Joy (1785) which became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
• The Artists
• The Cranes of Ibykus
• The Bell
• Columbus
• Hope
• Pegasus in Harness
• The Glove
• Nänie which Brahms set to music