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

Wrecked (The Westin Legacies, #1)
The Homemaker (The Chain of Lakes #1)
The Stars are on Our Side
Write Me for You
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Shattered Dreams (Dream #1)
Before Us
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
The Lovely Return
The French Honeymoon
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
15 Summers Later
Entropy
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
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
Death of a Salesman
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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Stephen  King
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. ...more
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M.L. Rio
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.
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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