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tragedy

vr.tr.tragedy · INF.MED

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

drama

is theorised in -

Poetics (Aristotle)

includes -

revenge tragedy

is contrasted with -

comedy

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

tragedy anime and mangasocial tragedyrevenge tragedydomestic tragedyRoman tragedyheroic dramafabula crepidataGreek tragedyAristotelian dramabourgeois tragedy

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.

  1. What is tragedy, and how does it differ from melodrama, tragicomedy, comedy, real disasters and the everyday sense? definition
  2. Is the question about a play, literary theory, performance or a personal loss, where support services can help? boundary

Forms

Named forms.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What are Roman, revenge, domestic, social and heroic tragedy, and tragic anime and manga? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific form? action
History History.

Sources.

Greek

Greek tragedy.

Greek

Greek.

  1. How was tragedy performed at the City Dionysia? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Renaissance

Elizabethan and French tragedy.

Renaissance

Renaissance.

  1. How did Seneca influence Elizabethan revenge tragedy and French neoclassicism? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Theory Theory.

Attribution.

Catharsis

Catharsis.

Catharsis

Catharsis.

  1. What did Aristotle mean by catharsis, and how do scholars interpret it, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits catharsis? action

Modern

Modern tragedy.

Modern

Modern.

  1. Is tragedy possible in modern times, as Steiner, Miller and others debated, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Performance.

Context.

Staging

Modern staging.

Staging

Staging.

  1. How are Greek tragedies staged today? provenance
  2. Which entry fits National Theatre? action

Anime

Tragic narratives in anime.

Anime

Anime.

  1. How do anime and manga use tragic storytelling? provenance
  2. 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?