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 == Tragedies and Tragedians ==
+'''Greek Tragedies'''
 * [[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]]
-**<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]]
-** <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 ==