Tragedy

Anthony and Cleopatra was written in 1607, following the incredible period that gave us Hamlet, Orthello, King Lear and Macbeth. Although sometimes hard to categorise, some put this play with Julius Caesar and Corialanus, the Roman plays: all three use Plutharch’s lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans as their primary source and all three […]

Tragedy is a dramatic genre wherein which the hero struggles in the face of a great trial only to be defeated in the end. The defeat, however, is seen as a triumph instead of a loss since the focus should be on the quality of the struggle not the end, and the purpose of a […]

In Arthur Miller’s essay entitled “tragedy and the Common Man,” he explained the importance to depict characters a tragic figures worthy of great literature just as important as the great tragic heroes of Greek plays. In this essay he sets out his own idea of tragedy and the tragic hero. He demonstrates that it is […]