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Meanings of greek tragedy in anglès

rus
древнегреческая трагедия
espanyol
tragedia griega
català
tragèdia grega

Genre of theatre from Ancient Greece.

Related terms
tragèdia grega
Sinònims
Examples for "attic tragedy"
Examples for "attic tragedy"
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Here Attic tragedies were once played, and Roman gladiators fought.
Heart of Man
2
Thespis was the founder of Attic tragedy.
Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
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These, however, were so important as to entitle their author to be considered as the father of Attic tragedy.
Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
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It has the terrible fierceness of an Attic tragedy, but it also has the decorum which the Attic tragedy never violated.
A Second Book of Operas
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But it could also describe any ancient Greek tragedy.
The Irish Times
2
Each of Ibsen's plays presupposes a long history behind it; each starts like an ancient Greek tragedy, in the full process of catastrophe.
Henrik Ibsen
Usage of greek tragedy in anglès
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News of offstage suicides are reported as if in a Greek tragedy.
The Guardian
2
The Greek tragedy that is the bank holiday weekend scramble has begun.
The Irish Times
3
Greek Tragedy affects the reader with the same sense of over-hanging doom.
The Little Warrior
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And to analyse the game as if it were a Greek tragedy.
The Guardian
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Specimens of Greek Tragedy, by Goldwin Smith
Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
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The whole nightmare is something out of Macbeth or a Greek tragedy.
Letters to jackie: condolences from a grieving nation
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This is like that of a typical Greek tragedy with one exception.
Sword and crozier, drama in five acts
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The forces of history rule this film as the gods do Greek tragedy.
Reuters
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It all started with a Greek tragedy, he tells Sara Keating.
The Irish Times
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That moment held all the cumulative horror of a Greek tragedy.
More William
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His plays Like Sex and Hippolytus Veiled - A Greek Tragedy premiere soon.
Radio NZ
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McKay compared his journey to that of the hero in a Greek tragedy.
Reuters
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Few Greek tragedies fully conform to the humanist commentary on them.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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Like Achilles dragging Hector at his chariot-wheel, the Greek tragedy circles about Troy.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
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He already has some Greek tragedies which he is to study.
Sidney Lanier
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It is a Greek tragedy, unrelieved, to be taken or left without palliation.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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Translations for greek tragedy
Greek tragedy through the time
Greek tragedy across language varieties
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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