Tragedy

Tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia, "he-goat-song"]. is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilisation. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity—"the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes an ...more

Learning Curve (Dickson University, #1)
Reckless Roses (Pacific Shores, #3)
Write Me for You
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
Before Us
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy
Shattered Dreams (Dream #1)
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Little Pieces of Light (Castle Hill Academy, #1)
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
15 Summers Later
The French Honeymoon
Krieg (Warhammer 40,000)
Survivor Tree
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
Othello
The Great Gatsby
King Lear
Of Mice and Men
Wuthering Heights
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Fault in Our Stars
Julius Caesar
The Song of Achilles
Frankenstein
Death of a Salesman
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Robyn Schneider
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding. ...more
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But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.
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