Definition of Tragedy

Trag´e`dy
n.1.
1.A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
Tragedy is to say a certain storie,
As olde bookes maken us memorie,
Of him that stood in great prosperitee
And is yfallen out of high degree
Into misery and endeth wretchedly.
- Chaucer.
All our tragedies are of kings and princes.
- Jer. Taylor.
tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest.
- Coleridge.
2.A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.


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Aeschylean tragedy, Euripidean tragedy, Greek tragedy, Melpomene, Renaissance tragedy, Senecan tragedy, Sophoclean tragedy, accident, blow, buskin, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, cothurnus, crack-up, crash, curse, disaster, dole, domestic tragedy, grief, ill hap, lot, misadventure, mischance, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, revenge tragedy, romantic tragedy, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragic drama, tragic flaw, tragic muse, unluckiness, wreck

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