tragedy
Let an agent explain tragedy, relay history, forms, theory and examples from literary and theatre sources with interpretations attributed, describe the named subgenres, and distinguish tragedy from melodrama, tragicomedy, comedy, disaster as a real event and the everyday sense of a sad event.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain tragedy, relay history, forms, theory and examples from literary and theatre sources with interpretations attributed, describe the named subgenres, and distinguish tragedy from melodrama, tragicomedy, comedy, disaster as a real event and the everyday sense of a sad event.
A form of drama, and more broadly literature, that presents serious and often catastrophic events befalling a protagonist, arousing emotions such as pity and fear, originating in ancient Greek theatre with Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and theorised by Aristotle s Poetics, continued in Roman tragedy by Seneca, Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy such as Hamlet, French neoclassical tragedy by Corneille and Racine, English heroic drama of the Restoration, domestic and bourgeois tragedy centred on ordinary people, and modern social tragedy; tragic narratives also appear in anime and manga. Theories of catharsis and the tragic are debated, with positions attributed.
What it is for: Dramatic and literary exploration of suffering.
It can be explain history and theory; relay subgenres and examples; describe named forms; distinguish related genres.
Distinguishing features
Serious action
Catastrophe
Pity and fear
Long tradition
What it looks like
Not a physical object; plays, texts and performances.
Physical character
Aristotle s Poetics: about 335 BC note
City Dionysia: Athenian festival of tragedy note
Hamlet: about 1600 note - revenge tragedy
How it is recognised
Serious drama of catastrophe
Tragedy anime and manga, social tragedy, revenge tragedy, domestic tragedy, Roman tragedy, heroic drama
Melodrama exaggerates emotion with moral clarity; tragicomedy mixes modes; comedy ends happily; real disasters are events; everyday tragedy means sad news
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is theorised in -
includes -
is contrasted with -
In practice
Families and kinds
Greek tragedy
Roman tragedy
revenge tragedy
neoclassical and heroic drama
domestic and social tragedy
Standards and regulation
No regulation
Failure modes and hazards
Conflating literary and everyday senses
Presenting one theory of catharsis as settled
Treating anime tragedy as a formal subgenre
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What tragedy is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is tragedy, and how does it differ from melodrama, tragicomedy, comedy, real disasters and the everyday sense? definition
- Is the question about a play, literary theory, performance or a personal loss, where support services can help? boundary
Forms
Named forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What are Roman, revenge, domestic, social and heroic tragedy, and tragic anime and manga? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
History History.
Sources.
Greek
Greek tragedy.
Greek
Greek.
- How was tragedy performed at the City Dionysia? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Renaissance
Elizabethan and French tragedy.
Renaissance
Renaissance.
- How did Seneca influence Elizabethan revenge tragedy and French neoclassicism? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Theory Theory.
Attribution.
Catharsis
Catharsis.
Catharsis
Catharsis.
- What did Aristotle mean by catharsis, and how do scholars interpret it, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits catharsis? action
Modern
Modern tragedy.
Modern
Modern.
- Is tragedy possible in modern times, as Steiner, Miller and others debated, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Performance.
Context.
Staging
Modern staging.
Staging
Staging.
- How are Greek tragedies staged today? provenance
- Which entry fits National Theatre? action
Anime
Tragic narratives in anime.
Anime
Anime.
- How do anime and manga use tragic storytelling? provenance
- Which entry fits anime? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should tragedy anime and manga be moved to a separate entry?
- How should theatre history sources be linked?
- Should heroic drama be a separate entry?