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