Thomas Kyd ( baptised 6 November 1558 ; buried 15 August 1594 ) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

Tragedy results in a catharsis ( emotional cleansing ) or healing for the audience through their experience of these emotions in response to the suffering of the characters in the drama.

* Lucas, F. L., Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy ( Cambridge University Press, 1922 ; paperback 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00358-2 ); on Seneca the man, his plays, and the influence of his tragedies on later drama.

* Cato, a Tragedy, 18th century drama by Joseph Addison, based on the life of Cato the Younger

Tudor drama, in particular, modeled itself after classical ideals and divided works into Tragedy and Comedy.

Instead his interests changed again, abandoning legal practice and philosophy in favor of drama, authoring a play called " Franz von Sickingen, a Historical Tragedy.

* Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ( 1980 )-Fact-based drama

Gilbert was also producing his one-act drama, Comedy and Tragedy, and keeping an eye on a revival of his Pygmalion and Galatea at the Lyceum Theatre by Mary Anderson's company.

The translation is accompanied by a twenty page “… Essay on the Origin and Progress of Tragedy & on the Office & Advantages of the Antient Chorus ” where he provides a brief comparison of Sophocles and Euripides and argues in favor of the restoration of the Chorus in modern drama.

This is the best way to spark and maintain attention throughout the various form and genres of drama “ Tragedy imitates good actions and, thereby, measures and depicts the well-being of its protagonist.

In the meantime, Phillips's next play, Herod: a Tragedy, had been produced by Beerbohm Tree on the 31st of October 1900, and was published as a book in 1901 ; Ulysses, also produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1902 ; The Sin of David, a drama on the story of David and Bathsheba, translated into the times and terms of Cromwellian England, was published in 1904 ; and Nero, produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1906.

His next venture, a blank-verse drama called The Bride's Tragedy ( 1822 ), was published and well reviewed, and won for him the friendship of Barry Cornwall.

Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, however, is the first major example of the revenge plot in English drama.

* The Father's Tragedy ( 1885 ) verse drama.

* Tragedy of Pardon ( 1911 ) verse drama.

An example is the death scenes in her closet drama The Tragedy of Antonie ( 1592 ), a translation of the French play Marc-Antoine ( 1578 ) by Robert Garnier ; it was completed in 1590 and first published in 1592.

1819 title page, Livorno first edition, C. and J. Ollier, London. The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts ( 1819 ) is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the Cencis ( in particular, Beatrice Cenci, pronounced CHEN-chee ).

Her story formed the basis of John Webster's drama, The White Devil, or The Tragedy of Paolo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano ( 1612 ), of Stendhal's novella Vittoria Accoramboni ( 1837-1839 ), of Ludwig Tieck's novel, Vittoria Accoramboni ( 1840 ) and of Robert Merle's novel l ' Idole ( 1987 ) published in English translation as Vittoria.

* Percy Bysshe Shelley's verse drama The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts ( composed at Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno, May – 5 August 1819, published spring 1820 by C. & J. Ollier, London, 1819 )

* Y no Higeki ( Tragedy of Y ) This television drama was the first Japanese drama based on an Ellery Queen novel.

In 1867, he presented his Christmas pantomime, called Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, and in 1884, he produced the drama Comedy and Tragedy.

He starred as Barry Scheck in a 2000 CBS drama American Tragedy about the O. J.

He concluded that " the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it ; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory con amore as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

Tragedy struck the organization and the rest of the National Hockey League upon the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, which claimed the lives of former Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon and defenseman Ruslan Salei, who had joined the KHL team during the summer.

In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman which endeavoured to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends.

Cover of the 1594 quarto of The True Tragedy of Richard III, which was " printed by Thomas Creede and ... to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market ".

* April 14 – First performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.

His first commercial success was An American Tragedy, published in 1925, which was made into a film in 1931 and again in 1951 ( as A Place in the Sun ).

which means Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete ( composed of an introduction, a middle part and an ending ), and possesses magnitude ; in language made pleasurable, each of its species separated in different parts ; performed by actors, not through narration ; effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions.

In his essay " Hegel's Theory of Tragedy ," A. C. Bradley first introduced the English-speaking world to Hegel's theory, which Bradley called the " tragic collision ", and contrasted against the Aristotelian notions of the " tragic hero " and his or her " hamartia " in subsequent analyses of the Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy and of Sophocles ' Antigone.

Particularly in the early years of his career, this freedom led to a great diversity in his output, which ranges from the " snarling " satire of Michaelmas Term ( performed by the Children of Paul's ) to the bleak intrigues of The Revenger's Tragedy ( performed by the King's Men ), assuming he is the author of the latter.

It can also be seen in the tragedies Women Beware Women and The Revenger's Tragedy, in which enjoyably amoral Italian courtiers endlessly plot against each other, resulting in a climactic bloodbath.

The Revenger's Tragedy was adapted into Alex Cox's film Revengers Tragedy, the opening credits of which attribute the play's authorship to Middleton.

Another version is Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, a one act play which was published in 1923.

Melpomene (; ; " to sing " or " the one that is melodious "), initially the Muse of Singing, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now.

The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama by Margaret Ann Barnes chronicles these events, which led to the small town to be known as " Sin City, USA ".

The book was one of the inspirations for filmmaker Tony Richardson's 1965 film The Loved One, which was based on Evelyn Waugh's short satirical 1948 novel of the same name, tellingly subtitled " An Anglo-American Tragedy ".

* The Tragedy Of Errors — Crippen & Landru, 1999 ( a previously unpublished synopsis written by Dannay, which was to be a Queen novel, plus all the previously uncollected short stories )

While there, he began work on his next film, the historical Tragedy in the House of Habsburg ( 1924 ) which depicts the Mayerling Incident.

Owing to the quarto title ( The First Part of the Contention ), and with the publication of True Tragedy in 1595, which makes no reference to 1 Henry VI, some critics have argued that 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI were written before 1 Henry VI.

The second 1723 adaptation, also performed at Drury Lane, was Theophilus Cibber's King Henry VI: A Tragedy, which used Act 5 of 2 Henry VI and Acts 1 and 2 of 3 Henry VI, and which featured his father Colley Cibber as Winchester.

" Most significant however is Act 5, Scene 1, where the entirety of Clarence's return to the Lancastrians is taken from True Tragedy, which completely replaces the depiction of the scene in 3 Henry VI.

* In Chapter 7, Poirot refers to a case of poisoning in which the killer uses a " psychological " moment to his advantage, an allusion to Three Act Tragedy.