It was the conclusion of the first phase of a process of tragic recollection, and of refining the recollection, that will last as long as there are Jews.

This is the story of his last tragic voyage, as nearly as we are able -- or ever, probably, will be able -- to determine:

There is only one escape left, a tragic one, and too many people are taking it: suicide.

In the church are the tombs of King Peter I and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro and with it the story of the tragic liaison between Pedro and his ever-lasting love for Inês.

In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise and relying on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic.

There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are the religious, supernatural, tragic, love ballads, historic, legendary and humorous.

David is also viewed as a tragic figure ; his acquisition of Bathsheba, and the loss of his son are viewed as his central tragedies.

In fact, the very existence of the Alphabet plays, or rather the absence of an equivalent edition for Sophocles and Aeschylus, could distort our notions of distinctive Euripidean qualitiesmost of his least ' tragic ' plays are in the Alphabet edition and possibly the other two tragedians would appear just as genre-bending as this " restless experimenter " if we possessed more than their ' select ' editions.

Whether or not there is any force in that allegation, His Majesty's Government are resolved that on this occasion there shall be no such tragic misunderstanding.

Certainly, all of Shakespeare's tragic protagonists are capable of both good and evil.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

There are moments of impressive songwriting, such as the tender " Many Too Many ", the darkly tragic " Duchess " and the epic " One for the Vine ", but little of Genesis ’ s music transcends in the way real classics do, and that is why they will remain perennial whipping boys for decades to come.

Goldberg's intimate relationship with her mother, aspects of Israel, basic objects within nature, as well as loneliness and the breakdown of relationships are common themes in her poetry, with a tragic intonation that some say originates in her own loneliness.

The three are mired in a love triangle in the last dozen or so pages, resulting in a tragic ending.

Both von Rauffenstein and de Boeldieu view their military service as a duty, and see the war as having a purpose ; as such, Renoir depicts them as laudable but tragic figures whose world is disappearing and who are trapped in a code of life that is rapidly becoming meaningless.

Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are the " happy darky " ( in the lazy, carefree character of Sam ); the light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object ( in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline ); the affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy ( through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation ); the pickaninny stereotype of black children ( in the character of Topsy ); the Uncle Tom, an African American who is too eager to please white people.

The legends about Adrastus and the two wars against Thebes have furnished ample materials for the epic as well as tragic poets of Greece, and some works of art relating to the stories about Adrastus are mentioned in Pausanias.

Though Myrrha abandoned her human feelings when she was transformed, she still mourns her tragic fate and her tears, being the drops oozing from the tree's bark, are today known as myrrh.

* Achaeus of Eretria ( born 484 BC ), tragic poet who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved

The myth shares thematic similarities with that of Phaëton — both are usually taken as tragic examples of hubris or failed ambition — and is often depicted in art.

Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images ; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions ; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense ; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive ; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the " well-made play ".

We can bring it forth as a frightening moment, as an abyss that opens suddenly ; indeed, many of Shakespeare's tragedies are already really comedies out of which the tragic arises.

Though the preface to the poem promises both joyous and dark tales ahead, the Nibelungenlied is by and large a very tragic work, and these four opening verses are believed to have been a late addition to the text, composed after the body of the poem had been completed.

While the Benders hold a tragic and morbid story, they are famous in the area.

Zinnemann's films are all dramas of lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events, including From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ); The Nun's Story ( 1959 ); A Man For All Seasons ( 1966 ); and Julia ( 1977 ).

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Notably, the existing fragments of Aristotle's Poetics describe three genres of poetry — the epic, the comic, and the tragic — and develop rules to distinguish the highest-quality poetry in each genre, based on the underlying purposes of the genre.

The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all.

* Inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky ’ s evening-long concert drama August 4, 1964, which was based on the tragic events of that date 44 years ago: the discovery in Mississippi of the bodies of three recently murdered young civil rights workers and a spurious “ attack ” on two American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

He followed this with Wallenstein's Camp, inspired by Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein drama trilogy, and began a third symphonic poem Hakon Jarl, based on the tragic drama by Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger.

His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic tale from the Kalevala.

Before his first defense, against England based Ugandan Cornelius Boza Edwards, Limón made a reference to the tragic fight between Lupe Pintor and Johnny Owens, which had taken place the year before, and after which Owens died.

In 1816 he made a mark in English literature with the publication of Story of Rimini, based on the tragic episode of Francesca da Rimini told in Dante's Inferno.

It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.

In 2010, she made her foray into Malayalam cinema with Shyamaprasad's Elektra, a psycho-sensual drama based on Sophocles's ancient Greek tragic play Electra.

* Mary Stuart ( play ) ( 1800 ), a tragic play by Friedrich Schiller based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots

* Maria Stuarda ( 1835 ), a tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti based on the play by Schiller

War time saw the tragic loss of the crew of two aircraft based at RAF Great Dunmow in aircraft crashes very close to the town 20 March and 21 November 1945.

The tragic character of Jennifer North is said to be based upon actress / pin-up girl Carole Landis, who had been romantically involved with Susann in their Hollywood days.

This tragic novel is based on the life of a Baltic-German nobleman, Timotheus von Bock ( 1787-1836 ), who was an adjutant to the relatively liberal Czar of Russia, Alexander I.

Maria Stuarda ( Mary Stuart ) is a tragic opera, ( tragedia lirica ), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 play Maria Stuart.

During the Dionysia took place a shad tragic, that is a race between three poets, chosen dall ' arconte eponymous perhaps based on a provisional script, each of which had to submit a tetralogy consisting of three tragedies and a satyr, each tetralogy was recited in the same day from the morning, so that the tragedy, lasted three days, while the fourth day was dedicated to the staging of five comedies.

* Columbine, an upcoming 2012 miniseries based on the tragic events surrounding the deadly 1999 massacre as recounted in the 2009 book by Dave Cullen.

The tragic demise of her parents has also awakened her hereditary powers, the ability to generate illusions, based on a particular form of witchcraft.

Her life became the inspiration for a tragic 1849 drama Adrienne Lecouvreur by Scribe and Legouvé on which Francesco Cilea's opera Adriana Lecouvreur and the operetta Adrienne ( 1926 ) by Walter Goetze are based.

Vidor wrote an unrealized screenplay based on the tragic life of The Crowd lead actor James Murray, who fell on hard times eerily similar to those of the character for which he is remembered.

In 1908, Hajibeyov wrote his first opera, Leyli and Majnun, based on the tragic love story by the 15th century poet Fuzûlî.

The film ( based on an original short story by hide ) is 45 minutes long and features the tragic plot of two beings from a different plane of existence coming to earth, specifically Tokyo, and being overwhelmed by the city ' sensory overload.

The film is based on a true story: the tragic life of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu.

* Forward Ever Backward Never ( Windrush Productions, 2002 ) commissioned by London based Artangel Interaction-located in Cuba, tragic love story set against the backdrop of 19th-century slavery.