Genre of theatre from Ancient Greece.
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Examples for "greek tragedy"
Examples for "greek tragedy"
1News of offstage suicides are reported as if in a Greek tragedy.
2The Greek tragedy that is the bank holiday weekend scramble has begun.
3Greek Tragedy affects the reader with the same sense of over-hanging doom.
4And to analyse the game as if it were a Greek tragedy.
5The Project Gutenberg EBook of Specimens of Greek Tragedy, by Goldwin Smith
1But it could also describe any ancient Greek tragedy.
2Each of Ibsen's plays presupposes a long history behind it; each starts like an ancient Greek tragedy, in the full process of catastrophe.
1Here Attic tragedies were once played, and Roman gladiators fought.
2Thespis was the founder of Attic tragedy.
3These, however, were so important as to entitle their author to be considered as the father of Attic tragedy.
4It has the terrible fierceness of an Attic tragedy, but it also has the decorum which the Attic tragedy never violated.
Translations for attic tragedy