Meanings of shakespearean tragedy in English

We see mothers in fierce, tearless overdrive, like figures from Shakespearean tragedy.

It's a Shakespearean tragedy, however, and things do not go well.

The proceedings, like a modern Shakespearean tragedy, had captivated the nation's fleeting imagination.

Whereas other accounts have offered soap opera, this is the presidency as Shakespearean tragedy.

Now, we get to see it again, in all its Shakespearean tragedy, on The Crown.

He gradually released her, feeling at once like a poor actor in a badly played Shakespearean tragedy.

So it has been said that Aeschylean Tragedy is more nearly allied to sculpture; Shakespearean Tragedy to the Epic.

Host of NBC's late-night talk show for 30 years, Carson's departure caused a battle of succession worthy of Shakespearean tragedy.

Inspired by the composer's musical adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy, they tell the story of their own conflict-ravaged, exploited homeland.

Like a Shakespearean tragedy.

The series set in the world of the modern-day uber-rich is a mix of social satire, Shakespearean tragedy and razor-sharp comedy.

That's not quite as far-fetched an idea as it seems, because Japanese-style comic versions of two Shakespearean tragedies have just been published.

Blessed, 78, had begun to deliver his opening lines in the Shakespearean tragedy when he apparently fainted and fell from a raised platform.

Dresses which had done duty in Shakespearean tragedies, in classical plays of the Cato type, in the comedies of the Restoration dramatists, were equally admissible.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate.

Fuelled by righteous fury, it's one of the great political novels of our age; a card-carrying Shakespearean tragedy with New Jersey dirt beneath its fingernails.