A Shakespearean tragedy is a play; it isn't real.
In Shakespeare's plays, the major difference between a tragedy and a comedy is that the main character dies in a tragedy. A Shakespearean comedy can be very tragic and depressing, but so long as the main character remains alive, it is not actually a tragedy.
In Greek drama, every play was either a tragedy or a comedy. In Elizabethan drama, even tragic plays had comic relief.
Hubris - Compare with Nemesis
Well, it's a Tragedy, so most likely..... Tragic
The audience admires and respects tragic characters; they look up to them. Domestic comic characters are similar to the way the audience members imagine themselves. The audience looks down on farcical characters because of the characters' idee fixeand weaknesses of character.
In Shakespeare's plays, the major difference between a tragedy and a comedy is that the main character dies in a tragedy. A Shakespearean comedy can be very tragic and depressing, but so long as the main character remains alive, it is not actually a tragedy.
Failure, adversity, misfortune, catastrophe, struggle, wreck, etc.
Miller thought it was appropriate for the tragic hero to be a common person.
tragic
In Greek drama, every play was either a tragedy or a comedy. In Elizabethan drama, even tragic plays had comic relief.
Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation., Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution., Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
Some characteristics of a Shakespearean Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet include the presence of a tragic hero (Romeo), a fatal flaw leading to their downfall (impulsive love), the involvement of fate (star-crossed lovers), a series of unfortunate events leading to a catastrophic ending, and the theme of the inevitability of tragedy despite efforts to prevent it.
hamartia is the tragic flaw of the protagonist in a given tragedy
According to Aristotle's theory of tragedy, tragic plays are morally edifying. The audience undergoes a catharsis when witnessing the hero's tragic fall.
That is the correct spelling of the word tragic (sad, unfortunate).
Certainly. It is a tragedy, as the characters we sympathize with end up dead. It is domestic, because the locus of the tragic events is the marriage between Othello and Desdemona.
Hubris - Compare with Nemesis