Of his later works may be mentioned Die Dresdner Gemäldegallerie ( 1844 ), and the tragedies Herzog Bernhard ( 1855 ) and Der Sohn des Fürsten ( 1858 ).

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

Raupach wrote both tragedies and comedies ; of the former, Die Fürsten Chawansky ( 1818 ), Der Liebe Zauberkreis ( 1824 ), Die Leibeigenen, oder Isidor und Olga ( 1826 ), Rafaele ( 1828 ), Der Nibelungenhort ( 1834 ) and Die Schule des Lebens ( 1841 ), and of the latter Die Schleichhändler ( 1828 ) and Der Zeitgeist ( 1830 ) are pieces which enjoyed great popularity.

Inspired by pre-and post-Christian folklore and history, his most famous novel is Der Wehrwolf ( The Warwolf-1910, the word being a play on ' Werwolf ', the German word for Werewolf ), an alternately heart-warming and heart-rending chronicle of a North German farming community suffering tragedies and ultimate triumph during the harrowing period of the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618-1648 ).

* Die Nibelungen ( 1862 ), his last work ( a trilogy consisting of a prologue, Der gehörnte Siegfried, and the tragedies, Siegfrieds Tod and Kriemhilds Rache ), which won for the author the Schiller prize.

This office he held until 1867, and in this period fall his finest dramatic productions, notably the tragedies Graf Essex ( 1856 ) and Montrose ( 1859 ), and his historical romance Der deutsche Krieg ( 1865 – 1866, 9 vols ), which graphically pictures a period in the Thirty Years ' War.

Jensen also published some tragedies, among which Dido ( Berlin, 1870 ) and Der Kampf fürs Reich ( Freiburg im Br., 1884 ) may be mentioned.

Houwald is remembered as the author of several so-called " Fate tragedies ", of which the best known are Das Bild, Der Leuchtturm, Die Heimkehr, Fluch und Segen ( all published in 1821 ).

With his tragedies, however, Der neun-und-zwanzigste Februar ( 1812 ), and especially Die Schuld ( 1813 ; publ.

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 ").

Andreas Gryphius and Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein wrote German language tragedies, or Trauerspiele, often on Classical themes and frequently quite violent.

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

Beginning with Friedrich von Schlegel, many have argued that the tragedies of Seneca the Younger in the first century AD were written to be recited at small parties rather than performed.

He was the author of many dramatic works, among others the historical tragedies Maria von Medici ( 1841 ), Luines ( 1842 ), Zenobia ( 1847 ), Moreto ( 1859 ), Maria ( 1860 ), Strafford ( 1862 ), and Heliodora ( 1867 ); and the comedies Die Herzogin ( 1848 ), Ein Schützling ( 1850 ), and Voltaire ( 1862 ).

His tragedies, Die Ynglinger ( 1858 ); Tiberius ( 180 ); Johann von Schwaben ; and the comedy Die steinerne Braut, had considerable success on the stage.

With these tragedies, to which may be added Die Rechte des Herzens ( The Rights of the Heart ) and Das Fräulein von Scuderi ( The Lady of Scuderi ), the comedy Hans Frey, and an unfinished tragedy on the subject of Agnes Bernauer, Ludwig ranks immediately after Christian Friedrich Hebbel as Germany's most notable dramatic poet at the middle of the 19th century.

He had an office in the Library of Alexandria, and was commissioned by Ptolemy to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

Aeschylus's work was so respected by the Athenians, that after his death his were the only tragedies allowed to be restaged in subsequent competitions.

Avoiding maritime tragedies became an imperative in Harrison's lifetime because this was an era when trade and navigation were on an explosive increase around the globe due to the maturing of other technologies, and also due to geo-political circumstances.

Naevius's dramas were mainly reworkings of Greek originals, but he also created tragedies based on Roman myths and history.

The cycle is modelled after ancient Greek dramas that were presented as three tragedies and one satyr play.

After repeated school shootings, societies were looking to find out why such tragedies were occurring.

However, his most admired tragedies were written in a seven-year period between 1601 and 1608.

His next productions were the tragedies of Erik og Abel ( 1820 ) and Væringerne i Miklagaard ( 1826 ), and the epic of Hrolf Krake ( 1829 ).

He supplied his countrymen with romantic tragedies at the very moment when all eyes were turned to the stage, and when the old-fashioned pieces were felt to be inadequate.

Marlowe's tragedies were exceptionally popular, such as Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta.

The four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's greatest ( Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth ) were composed during this period, as well as many others ( see Shakespearean tragedy ).

Historical topics were especially popular, not to mention the usual comedies and tragedies.

His domains were then ruled peacefully for the next 45 years, although Franz Joseph personally suffered the tragedies of the suicide of his son, the Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889, and the assassination of his wife, the Empress Elisabeth in 1898.

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.

Athenian tragedies were performed in late March / early April at an annual state religious festival in honor of Dionysos.

As early as 1503 however, original language versions of Sophocles, Seneca, and Euripides, as well as comedic writers such as Aristophanes, Terence and Plautus were all available in Europe and the next forty years would see humanists and poets translating and adapting their tragedies.

Corneille's tragedies were strangely un-tragic ( his first version of Le Cid was even listed as a tragicomedy ), for they had happy endings.

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.

This was evident in his next plays, which were classical tragedies: Horace ( 1640, dedicated to Richelieu ), Cinna ( 1643 ), and Polyeucte ( 1643 ).

Most of the plays that Corneille wrote after his return to the stage were tragedies.

Understanding that Delhi and Punjab policemen, accused of organising attacks on Muslims, were personally affected by the tragedies of partition, Patel called out the Indian Army with South Indian regiments to restore order, imposing strict curfews and shoot-at-sight orders.

" Pièces noires or " Black plays " were tragedies or realistic dramas and included Antigone, Jézabel, and La Sauvage ( The Restless Heart ).

From this time forward his literary activity became very great ; in 1811 he published the Oriental tale of Ali og Gulhyndi, and in 1812 the last of his great tragedies, Stærkodder.

His tragedies were very well received and were performed at the Dresden court theatre ( Dresdner Hofbühne ).

Up to this time he had written some sixteen or seventeen comedies, tragedies, and tragi-comedies, of which the tragedies were mostly of very small value and the tragi-comedies of little more.

Others are tragedies about schism, politically motivated murder, and personal vendettas in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, but not everyone necessarily likes everyone else very much.

The Suda gives the titles of twenty tragedies, of which a very few fragments have been preserved: Aeolus, Allies ( Symmakhoi ), Andromeda, Chrysippus, Daughters of Aeolus, Daughters of Pelops, Elephenor, Herakles, Hippolytus, Kassandreis, Laius, Marathonians, Menedemus, Nauplius, Oedipus ( two versions ), Orphan ( Orphanos ), Pentheus, Suppliants ( Hiketai ), Telegonus, and the Wanderer ( Aletes ).

Even more than John Ford, whose ' Tis Pity She's a Whore is also very bleak, Webster's tragedies present a horrific vision of mankind.

Exosquad had a very serious approach to the plot with several intertwined narrative threads and a number of characters displaying a full spectrum of human emotions, relationships and experiences, such as friendship, love, hatred, personal tragedies, treachery and taking responsibility for others.

In the tragedies of Euripides the change between happiness and mishappiness is very important.

Epic poetry describing historical events and tragedies are very popular.

He composed poetry, tragedies, satiric dramas, and comedies, of which very little remains.

Julia was very intelligent, a devout Christian, and a belle in society, but her life became full of tragedies.

Off the ice, Neely's personal family tragedies, with both his parents dying of cancer, have made him very aware of those whose circumstances are less fortunate than his own.

This is very popular in Elizabethan and Greek tragedies.

" In 2011, Rely on Horror listed her as one of top ten out-of-luck horror game protagonists " for experiencing several tragedies and losses at a young and impressionable age, ultimately being used as a weapon and a source of fanservice, only to die and spawn a race of terrible monsters from her body that do the very thing she was trying to stop.