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Definition of Tragedies
1. tragedy [n] - See also: tragedy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragedies
Literary usage of Tragedies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"CHAPTER VI SHAKESPEARE'S LATER tragedies IN the interpretation of Shakespeare's
tragedies it is important to bear three things in mind : (1) that between ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Sir Philip Sidney's The Lady uf May tragedies by Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (.
... Of a very different complexion and substance are the two tragedies ..."
3. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh (1896)
"(2) The Reproduction of Old tragedies. During the early history of the classical
drama the practice of reviving and re-exhibiting old tragedies was far less ..."
4. On the Art of the Theatre by Edward Gordon Craig (1912)
"The fact of their presence precludes a realistic treatment of the tragedies in
which they appear. Shakespeare has made them the centre of his vast dreams, ..."
5. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"Ford is the author of three romantic tragedies, Ford's roman 'Tis Pity She's a
Whore, The Broken Heart, and tic tragedies. Love's Sacrifice, all of them ..."
6. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"The Lover's Melancholy was licensed The Lmm'i for the King's men in 1628, and
must have followed ,6jg"c °y' 'Tis Pity and preceded the two other tragedies. ..."
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