Arion is also associated with the origins of tragedy: of Solon John the Deacon reports: “ Arion of Methymna first introduced the drama action of tragedy, as Solon indicated in his poem entitled Elegies ".

* Averroes appears in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, entitled " Averroes's Search ", in which he is portrayed trying to find the meanings of the words tragedy and comedy.

A tragedy entitled Cinyras is mentioned, wherein the main character, Cinyras, is to be slain along with his daughter Myrrha, and " a great deal of fictitious blood was shed ".

She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine ( 1639 – 1699 ), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

He corresponded with Francesco Algarotti during the genesis of Jean Racine ´ s dramatic tragedy entitled Phèdre

Gance tried to maintain a connection with the theatre and he finished writing a monumental tragedy entitled Victoire de Samothrace, in which he hoped that Sarah Bernhardt would star.

Euripides entitled his earliest known tragedy Peliades ; he entered it into the Dionysia of 455 BC but did not win.

The story was used by Thomas Southerne for a tragedy entitled Oroonoko: A Tragedy.

Most editions also include a novella entitled Moonlight Shadow, which is also a tragedy dealing with loss and love.

Hildebrand defended Hillgruber by attacking Habermas over the “ tried and true higher-ups of the NSDAP ” line created by Habermas, which Hildebrand considered a highly dishonest method of attack Hildebrand argued that Hillgruber was merely trying to show the " tragedy " of the Eastern Front, and was not engaging in moral equivalence between the German and Soviet sides In another essay entitled " He Who Wants to Escape the Abyss " first published in Die Welt on November 22, 1986, Hildebrand accused Habermas of engaging in “ scandalous ” attacks on Hillgruber Hildebrand claimed that “ Habermas ’ s criticism is based in no small part on quotations that unambiguously falsify the matter ” Hildebrand wrote that in his view about Habermas that: “ A citation garbled like this is no way a forgivable exception.

In 1661 Samuel Pordage published a pamphlet, ‘ Heroick Stanzas on his Maiesties Coronation .’ In 1673 his ‘ Herod and Mariamne ,’ a tragedy, was acted at the Duke's Theatre, and was published anonymously.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly.

' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

The life of Amalasunta was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Goldoni and presented at Milan in ( 1733 ).

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

What was new was a refusal to credit the higher status of certain types, where the taxonomy implied a preference for tragedy and the sublime to comedy and the Rococo.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.

There was a tragedy at the club late in the 1992 – 93 season.

Their tragedy was too much for Alison and, after kidnapping then returning Sarah-Lou Platt's newborn baby Bethany, she committed suicide by stepping in front of a lorry, leaving Kevin devastated.

Just as Arcas was about to kill his own mother with his javelin, Jupiter averted the tragedy by placing mother and son amongst the stars as Ursa Major and Minor, respectively.

This crossing was named by Aeschylus in his tragedy The Persians as the cause of divine intervention against Xerxes.

Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

The early 1720s were very important for Marivaux ; he wrote a comedy ( now mostly lost ) called L ' Amour et la vérité, another comedy, Arlequin poli par l ' amour, and an unsuccessful tragedy, Annibal ( printed 1737 ).

* Julius Caesar Muretus ' Senecan tragedy, printed in 1591 ( Latin text )

* The Cruel Brother, tragedy ( licensed 12 January 1627 ; printed 1630 )

* The Unfortunate Lovers, tragedy ( licensed 16 April 1638 ; printed 1643 )

They returned to Paris, or at least to its neighborhood, in 1785, and Mlle Necker resumed writing miscellaneous works, including a novel, Sophie, printed in 1786, and a tragedy, Jeanne Grey, published in 1790.

* The Duke of Milan, tragedy ( c. 1621 – 3 ; printed 1623, 1638 )

* The Unnatural Combat, tragedy ( c. 1621 – 6 ; printed 1639 )

* The Roman Actor, tragedy ( licensed 11 October 1626 ; printed 1629 )

* The Fatal Dowry, tragedy ( c. 1619, printed 1632 ); adapted by Nicholas Rowe: The Fair Penitent

* Rollo Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, tragedy ( c. 1616 – 24 ; printed 1639 ).

* The Virgin Martyr, tragedy ( licensed 6 October 1620 ; printed 1622 ).

* Hannibal and Scipio ( acted 1635, printed 1637 ), a historical tragedy ;

Heywood's best known plays are his domestic tragedies and comedies ( plays set among the English middle classes ); his masterpiece is generally considered to be A Woman Killed with Kindness ( acted 1603 ; printed 1607 ), a domestic tragedy about an adulterous wife, and a widely admired Plautine farce The English Traveller ( acted approximately 1627 ; printed 15 July 1633 ), which is also known for its informative " Preface ", giving Heywood an opportunity to inform the reader about his prolific creative output.

There is a reference in Thomas Preston's A lamentable tragedy mixed ful of pleasant mirth, conteyning the life of Cambises King of Percia, printed in 1569 that may refer to the rhyme:

The original work by Baker had been based on Gerard Langbaine the Younger's Account of the English Dramatick Poets ( 1691 ), Giles Jacob's Poetical Register ( 1719 ), Thomas Whincop's List of all the Dramatic Authors ( printed with his tragedy of Scanderbeg, 1747 ) and the manuscripts of Thomas Coxeter.

* The Black Prince ( acted 1667 ; printed 1669 ), tragedy

* Cupid's Revenge, tragedy ( c. 1607 – 12 ; printed 1615 )

* The Maid's Tragedy, tragedy ( c. 1609 ; printed 1619 )

1350 ); Guy of Warwick, a poem ( written in 1617 and licensed, but not printed ) by John Lane, the manuscript of which ( in the British Library ) contains a sonnet by John Milton, father of the poet ; The Famous Historie of Guy, Earl of Warwick ( c. 1607 ) by Samuel Rowlands ; The Booke of the moste Victoryous Prince Guy of Warwicke ( William Copland, London, n. d .); other editions by J. Cawood and C. Bates ; chapbooks and ballads of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievements and Curious Events of Guy, Earl of Warwick, a tragedy ( 1661 ) which may possibly be identical with a play on the subject written by John Day and Thomas Dekker, and entered at Stationers ' Hall on 15 January 1618 / 19 ; three verse fragments are printed by Hales and F. J. Furnivall in their edition of the Percy Folio MS. vol.

It was followed by an English tragedy on Robespierre, praised by Louis Blanc, but never printed, and by a little volume of immature ' Poems ' published in 1867 under the pseudonym of ' Claude Lake.