The hero makes a major mistake.
The hero changes from being happy to being sad
Shakespeare's six most famous tragedies are Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and King Lear.
Extremely entertaining. Most of them, anyway.
Strong heros from myths
You might think that William Shakespeare mainly wrote tragedies because he is most famous for his tragedies, but actually he wrote almost twice as many comedies (18) as tragedies (10) and histories (10).
The Greek heroes in Elizabethan tragedies were from the historical era. In the Greek tragedies they were from the pre-historical era.
The New Tragedies was created in 2003.
Sublunary Tragedies was created in 1999.
Nina's Tragedies was created in 2003.
they are described the as tragedies because they are so tragic and heart wrenching, horroring, and deepening that they are tragedies
If we divide Shakespeare's plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, the comedies outnumber the others almost two to one. There are ten histories and ten tragedies and eighteen comedies.
Some early Greek tragedies include works by Aeschylus, such as "The Oresteia" trilogy and "Prometheus Bound"; Sophocles' plays like "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone"; and Euripides' tragedies including "Medea" and "The Trojan Women." These plays often dealt with themes of fate, morality, and the consequences of human actions.