The character's new, tragic backstory was Bond's way of grafting dramatic themes from The Revenger's Tragedy onto Pitt's stage plot.

The depictions of proletarian life, immorality and lawlessness, and the tragic outcome in which the main character dies on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial.

His version had a powerful emotional impact: Lear driven to madness by his daughters was ( in the words of one spectator, Arthur Murphy ) " the finest tragic distress ever seen on any stage " and, in contrast, the devotion shown to Lear by Cordelia ( a mix of Shakespeare's, Tate's and Garrick's contributions to the part ) moved the audience to tears.

The film portrayed the singer as a tragic man of simple ways, a well-meaning but clueless father and lousy husband tormented by stage fright and a propensity towards drinking.

Among a wide range of interests, Piso sang on the tragic stage, wrote poetry, played an expert game of draughts, and owned a villa at Baiae.

The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1964 ) presents the tragic conquest of Peru by the Spanish, while Black Comedy ( 1965 ) takes a humorous look at the antics of a group of characters feeling their way around a pitch black room — although the stage is actually flooded with light.

Kean was the first to restore the tragic ending to Shakespeare's King Lear, which had been replaced on stage since 1681 by Nahum Tate's happy ending adaptation The History of King Lear.

But unbeknownst to Casey, the stage was being set for the tragic wreck at Vaughan.

The evolution was slow ; and we can see in his own works examples of every stage, from that of witty indifference in fifty pieces of the first collection, to that of grave and even tragic feeling in Les Souvenirs du peuple or Le Vieux Vagabond.

It is the task of the dramatist to produce the tragic enactment in order to accomplish this empathy by means of what is taking place on stage.

* Euripides: The famous tragic poet, whose mythical heroes often appear on stage in shabby dress, he is a frequent target in later plays and he appears here as a magniloquent hoarder of disreputable costumes.

In other words, the terrible events that follow one another on stage cause the audience to empathize in pulses that generate them, by empathizing with the tragic hero through his emotions ( drama ), the other condemning the wickedness or vice through the hubris (-Lett " pride " or " abuse ", i. e. the act against the laws of God, which leads the character to make the crime ).

Real cartridges with bullets removed are still dangerously charged which has caused several tragic instances when used on stage or film.

This sets the stage for an explosive and tragic final showdown in Washington, D. C ..

" In this last stage, individuals begin to come to terms with their mortality, or that of a loved one, or other tragic event.

Many mountains on this stage have been included before, notably the Col du Portet d ' Aspet, this is its 51st inclusion since 1910 including the tragic occasion in 1995 when Fabio Casartelli crashed on the descent and later died.

Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson ( April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918 ) who is mostly remembered today for his tragic death after a bullet catch trick went wrong.

" With an arresting appearance and a dominant stage presence, she proved most effective as strong, tragic characters, her Gertrude in Hamlet being accounted by some critics the finest they had seen.

Oroonoko on the stage was regarded as a great tragedy and a highly romantic and moving story, and on the page as well the tragic love between Oroonoko and Imoinda, and the menace of Byam, captivated audiences.

The subplot was soon cut from stage representations with the changing taste of the 18th century, but the tragic tale of Oroonoko and Imoinda remained popular on the stage.

In 1842, a pantomime was performed at the Funambules in which Pierrot meets a shockingly tragic end: at the final curtain of The Ol ’ Clo ’ s Man, Pierrot dies on stage.

Canio, the tenor protagonist of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's famous tragic opera, " Pagliacci ", is usually garbed on stage as the whiteface variety of clown.

The first to occupy the tragic stage was Trissino with his Sofonisba, following the rules of the art most scrupulously, but written in sickly verses, and without warmth of feeling.

The general effect is tragic.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

And the fate of such men has tragic relevance because it is public.

The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.

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

`` The world is full of blokes who put their hearts into making the tragic scene.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

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

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.

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

His episcopate, however, is chiefly remembered owing to its tragic close.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

His genre-bending inventiveness is shown above all in Alcestis, a blend of tragic and satyric elements.

What small story there is contains a chaste romance and lots of references to the lessons to be learned from " this strangely innocent but tragic creature.

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.

Nowadays, the day is a national holiday in order to remember the tragic events and the people that were killed.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the " deep tension between the Kantian moral imperatives and a Nietzschean diagnosis of the modern cultural world is apparently what gives such a darkly tragic and agnostic shade to Weber's ethical worldview.

Victor is a tragic comedy character and sympathy is directed towards him as he becomes embroiled in complex misunderstandings, bureaucratic vanity and, at times, sheer bad luck.