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== Tragedies and Tragedians == | == Tragedies and Tragedians == | ||
'''Greek Tragedies''' | |||
* [[Euripides]] | * [[Euripides]] | ||
** <i>[[Medea]]</i> | ** <i>[[Medea]]</i> - Medea attempts to take revenge on Jason by slaughtering their children | ||
** <i>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/266678/Hippolytus Hyppolytus]</i> - Aphrodite takes revenge on Hyppolytus, resulting in his death | |||
** <i>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/47762/Bacchae Bacchae]</i> - Pentheus, the king, is torn to pieces by a group of women, including his own mother | |||
* [[Sophocles]] | * [[Sophocles]] | ||
**<i>[[Oedipus Rex]]</i> | ** <i> [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/554733/Sophocles/30140/Dramatic-and-literary-achievements Ajax]</i> - Ajax is driven to suicide | ||
**<i>[[Antigone]]</i> | **<i>[[Oedipus Rex]]</i> - Oedipus kills his father, marries his mother, and then blinds himself in shame | ||
**<i>[[Antigone]]</i> - Antigone commits suicide in jail awaiting her execution | |||
**<i>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/554733/Sophocles/30143/Antigone Trachinian Women]</i> - Deianeira attempts to give Heracles a love charm, which turns out to be poison | |||
'''British Tragedies''' | |||
* [[Shakespeare]] | * [[Shakespeare]] | ||
** <i>[[Hamlet]]</i> | ** <i>[[Hamlet]]</i> - While attempting to avenge his father's death Hamlet is murdered, along with many other characters | ||
** <i>[[Othello]]</i> | ** <i>[[Othello]]</i> - Othello is tricked into believing his wife has a lover. He then kills her, realizes her innocence, and takes his own life | ||
** <i>[[MacBeth]]</i> | ** <i>[[MacBeth]]</i> - MacBeth commits regicide, and then himself comes to an untimely end on the battlefield | ||
** <i>[[King Lear]]</i> | ** <i>[[King Lear]]</i> - Cordelia comes to the aid of her father and is imprisoned and sentenced to death | ||
== Some Views on Tragedy == | == Some Views on Tragedy == | ||