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... tragedy contest . Each dramatist desiring to compete for the prize was required to write for the occasion a set of three full tragedies , usually connected by the same story . This is why most of the Greek dramas were planned as tril ...
... tragedy contest . Each dramatist desiring to compete for the prize was required to write for the occasion a set of three full tragedies , usually connected by the same story . This is why most of the Greek dramas were planned as tril ...
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... tragedies was The Spanish Tragedy , or Hieronimo Is Mad Again , by Thomas Kyd , which was written in 1592. It is a particularly gory re- venge play in the course of which ten characters lose their lives violently . It was probably the ...
... tragedies was The Spanish Tragedy , or Hieronimo Is Mad Again , by Thomas Kyd , which was written in 1592. It is a particularly gory re- venge play in the course of which ten characters lose their lives violently . It was probably the ...
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... tragedy was restricted by very artificial require- ments of so - called " unity " which were supposedly Greek , but which actually had been thought up by the court dramatists of the Italian Renaissance and quite falsely credited to the ...
... tragedy was restricted by very artificial require- ments of so - called " unity " which were supposedly Greek , but which actually had been thought up by the court dramatists of the Italian Renaissance and quite falsely credited to the ...
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