By such innocent actions are human tragedies sometimes set in motion.

Jean Racine's tragedies — inspired by Greek myths, Euripides, Sophocles and Seneca — condensed their plot into a tight set of passionate and duty-bound conflicts between a small group of noble characters, and concentrated on these characters ' double-binds and the geometry of their unfulfilled desires and hatreds.

The earliest known accounts of the death of Iphigenia are included in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, both Athenian tragedies of the fifth century BCE set in the Heroic Age.

He told the Daily Mail, that dealing with those tragedies was like his experience of war, " You don't consciously set out to do something gallant.

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.

Scholars generally see Miß Sara Sampson and Emilia Galotti as the first bourgeois tragedies, Minna von Barnhelm ( Minna of Barnhelm ) as the model for many classic German comedies, Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ) as the first German drama of ideas (" Ideendrama ") and his theoretical writings Laocoon and Hamburg Dramaturgy ( Hamburgische Dramaturgie ) set the standards for the discussion of aesthetic and literary theoretical principles

He carried on a sexual dalliance with the obsessed Angelique despite his claim of love for Josette, which set in motion many tragedies in his life.

He then reveals that he is one of ' The Gathering ', who have since stopped simply watching the world's tragedies but have also begun to set up the potential tragedies to be more likely to happen.

The Prince said " It's been one of the things that many of us have dreaded for a long time and now they have finally got through ," and added, " What I can never get over is the incredible resilience of the British people who have set us all a fantastic example of how to react to these kinds of tragedies.

Racine's tragedies — inspired by Greek myths, Euripides, Sophocles and Seneca — condensed their plot into a tight set of passionate and duty-bound conflicts between a small group of noble characters, concentrating on these characters ' double-binds and the geometry of their unfulfilled desires and hatreds.

In the play's final scene Creon blames himself for all the tragedies.

:* In the Book of Job, God allows Satan to plague His loyal servant Job with devastating tragedies leaving all his children dead and himself poor.

Booster develops over the course of his publication history and through personal tragedies to become a true hero weighed down by the reputation he has created for himself.

As it turns out, however, he merely goes there to borrow a costume from one of his tragedies, Telephus, in which the hero disguises himself as a beggar.

He was also a well-educated man, reading Greek tragedies-and writing some tragedies himself.

Beginning in 1909, Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and, in 1908, he made a name for himself as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes.

At the beginning of the game he is firmly aligned with the Center and is a commanding officer for Aleph, but when he witnesses the tragedies that the Center inflicts upon the people of Tokyo Millennium and discovers the true nature of the Thousand Year Kingdom, he rebels and dedicates himself to spreading the truth about the Center's machinations.

The prosecution claims that Maximus himself caused the tragedies, by delaying the train and panicking the miners into making a mistake.

Inertia learns the lesson too well, and claiming himself to be " Kid Zoom ", the new master of tragedies, turns over the Flash's Rogues and Zoom altogether.

Describing the song in an interview to Marisa Lira, of the newspaper Diário de Notícias, Barroso said that he wanted to " free the samba away from the tragedies of life, of the sensual scenario already so explored ".

He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays.

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

Some scholars have observed that revenge tragedies come from traditionally Catholic countries, such as Spain and Italy ; and they present a contradiction, since according to Catholic doctrine the strongest duty is to God and family.

" A complete system of outcomes for a subject area normally includes everything from mere recitation of fact (" Students will name three tragedies written by Shakespeare ") to complex analysis and interpretation (" Student will analyze the social context of a Shakespearean tragedy in an essay ").

: Then arose the famous murderer, Robert Hood, as well as Little John, together with their accomplices from among the disinherited, whom the foolish populace are so inordinately fond of celebrating both in tragedies and comedies, and about whom they are delighted to hear the jesters and minstrels sing above all other ballads.

* Theatre of ancient Rome – diverse art form, ranging from festival performances of street theatre, nude dancing, and acrobatics, to the staging of Plautus's broadly appealing situation comedies, to the high-style, verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.

Nearing the end of her career, which ranged from Noël Coward comedies to Shakespearean tragedies, she observed, " It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

He loved the Latin poems of the humanists, the tragedies of the Greeks or the Livian comedies of Bibbiena and Ariosto, while still following the accounts from the explorers of the New World.

Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career.

No tragedies from the 6th century and only 32 of the more than a thousand that were performed in during the 5th century have survived.

Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata ( tragedies adapted from Greek originals ); his Phaedra, for example, was based on Euripides ' Hippolytus.

Corneille continued to write plays through 1674 ( mainly tragedies, but also something he called " heroic comedies ") and many continued to be successes, although the " irregularities " of his theatrical methods were increasingly criticized ( notably by François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac ) and the success of Jean Racine from the late 1660s signaled the end of his preeminence.

Ironically, Socrates was fond of quoting from tragedies.

" That disunity is often quoted as the source of Serbian historic tragedies, from the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 to Yugoslav wars in 1990s.

He went on to teach that the need for all people to repent is the true lesson from such tragedies.

They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.

In the USA The Salvation Army's first major forays into disaster relief resulted from the tragedies of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Traditional Biblical, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic thought has offered theological explanations for previous tragedies, from the reaction of the Prophets to Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem and exile of the nation, to the Medieval Pogroms of Christendom.

The base experienced one of its worst peacetime tragedies in March 1953 when an RB-36 and its entire crew of 23 crashed in Newfoundland while returning from a routine exercise in Europe.

The third ( title unknown ), was screened in 2009 and was a piece on how the lessons learned from Mt Blanc and other tunnel accidents were put to use in the construction of the Marmaris Tunnel in Turkey, to endeavour to prevent any re-occurrence of these tragedies.

He removed in 1625 to London, where he lived in Gray's Inn, and for eighteen years from that time he was a prolific writer for the stage, producing more than thirty regular plays, tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies, and showing no sign of exhaustion when a stop was put to his occupation by the Puritan edict of 1642.

In the same year, Tales from Shakespeare ( Charles handled the tragedies ; his sister Mary, the comedies ) was published, and became a best seller for William Godwin's " Children's Library.

Moments of silence have often been observed prior to football games with reasons for silences range from national and international tragedies, to the death of individuals connected to the sport or specific clubs.

It delves into layers of spiritual meanings involving a couple traveling from Halifax to Texas and encountering tragedies of racism and sexism.