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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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... tragedy had drawn to its close a man who was not a dramatist , Aristotle , the great philosopher and scientist , wrote his Poetics , an essay upon the writing of tragedy . This is of far - reaching importance , for Aristotle was not ...
... tragedy had drawn to its close a man who was not a dramatist , Aristotle , the great philosopher and scientist , wrote his Poetics , an essay upon the writing of tragedy . This is of far - reaching importance , for Aristotle was not ...
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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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