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- A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate.…
- In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly…
- Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
- In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its…
- We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of…
- But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of…
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- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. — John Banville
- The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him,… — William Barclay
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- I can't go on. I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett