1) Adversity 2) Anagram of gyrated 3) Ancient Greek theatre 4) Antigone 5) Antigone or Elektra 6) Bad luck 7) Blow 8) Calamity 9) Cataclysm 10) Catastrophe 11) Coriolanus or King Lear 12) Disaster 13) Drama genre 14) Euripidean work 15) Excites terror or pity 16) French word used in English 17) Greek invention
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1) Apocalypse 2) Calamity 3) Catastrophe 4) Cothurnus 5) Crisis 6) Disaster 7) Drama 8) Play 9) Sorrow 10) Tragicomedy 11) Tragicomic
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- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
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Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia, `he-goat-song`{Refn | group = `lower-alpha` | Middle English tragedie < Middle French tragedie < Latin tragoedia < {{lang-grc|τραγῳδία}, tragōidia}}) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing.{Sfn | Ban...
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[event] A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Not all death is considered a tragedy. Rather it is a precise set of symptoms surrounding the loss that define it as such. There are a variety of factors that define a death as tragic. An event in which a massive number of deaths occur ma...
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A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. In tragedy, catastrophe and suffering await many of the characters, especially the hero. Examples include Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet; Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King, and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. See Tragic flaw and Tragic hero...
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• (n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. • (n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especial...
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A film in which the protagonist dies. The genre, whether literary, theatrical or film, elicits the emotions of pity and fear in the audience, and, according to Aristotle in his `Poetics` are cathartic in nature
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branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. By ... [41 related articles]
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theatre, a play dealing with a serious theme, traditionally one in which a character meets disaster as a result either of personal failings or circumstances beyond his or her control....
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A serious play in which the chief character, by some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a ser
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A play with a tragic ending. 'In a tragic situation the sense of pity is complicated by an effect of struggle and conflict ... the tragic effect requires that the sufferer have strength enough to struggle vigorously against his situation.' (Understanding Fiction)
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In the theatre, a tragedy is a play dealing with a serious theme.
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n] - drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance
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tragedy, tragedies 1. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances; the genre made up of such works and the art or theory of writing or producing these works. 2. A play, film, telev...
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in Greek theater, a play depicting man as a victim of destiny. The characteristics of tragedy have evolved over time to include any serious play in which man is a victim of fate, a character flaw, moral weakness, or social pressure. According to Aristotle, the purpose of tragedy is to arouse pity and fear in the audience and purge them at the play...
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A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction.
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a dramatic work dealing with a serious theme in which typically a noble person possesses a character flawed by pride (hubris), envy, weakness, etc., causing him to break a moral code or divine law; Oedipus is one such tragic character.
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noun drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
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In the theatre, a play dealing with a serious theme, traditionally one in which a character meets disaster as a result either of personal failings or circumstances beyond his or her control. Historically the classical view of tragedy, as expressed by the Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, and the Roman tragedian Seneca, has been ...
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In theatre, a play with a sad or serious ending, and a moral lesson or teaching.
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a play that is about sad events or that ends badly for the characters.
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