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What do you expect a tragedy to be about?

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What do you expect a tragedy to be about?

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Write a sentence using the word tragedy in the comments below.

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1 An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

mass noun 'his life had been plagued by tragedy'

'Any road accident that causes a death or serious injury is a tragedy.'

'The patients to undergo this new medical procedure have been seriously disfigured by burns, serious accidents or personal tragedies.'

'Terrible human tragedies and unimaginable suffering result from fatal accidents in farming each year.'

'Some accidental deaths are not tragedies, it turns out.'

'The government and the media have attempted to portray the tragedy as a natural disaster.'

'And the deaths flowing from natural tragedies such as this seem very arbitrary, unfair and unacceptable.'

'She is determined to help improve health care in developing nations, to prevent tragedies like her natural mother's early death.'

'Pastors' presence as community leaders is most evident after collective tragedies such as fatal accidents and violent crimes.'

'The show is a catalogue of accidents, deaths and tragedies.'

'The floods which swept through Mozambique were a natural tragedy which could not have been prevented.'

'In reality, we all know of baddies in this world for who everything seems to go perfectly for, while on the other hand we know of very good people who suffer several setbacks and tragedies in life.'

'These frightening statistics speak for themselves and behind these figures there lie terrible human tragedies and unimaginable suffering.'

'You understand, sort of, when people die of natural tragedies, whether it's fires or tornadoes or hurricanes or whatever.'

'The tragedies caused by accident, human error and carelessness have become the most significant in the early history of the region.'

'The narrator's diaries record her friend's distress, and the tragedies that result.'

'But road safety campaigners say the figures hide the human tragedy behind each accident.'

'The official outcome of the investigation was that the tragedy was an accident - pure and simple.'

'Each death is a tragedy with devastating life changing effects on the families of the children killed.'

'Random accidents and everyday tragedies become just another ratings-boosting gimmick, filling airtime before the next disaster strikes.'

'But unfortunately there is the bad news as well, the tragedies, accidents and the deaths.'

disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm, devastation, misfortune, misadventure, mishap, reverse, vicissitude, setback, trial, tribulation, affliction, blight, injury, adversity, sad event, serious accident

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2 A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

'The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to.'

'The characters in the tragedies of Sophocles resist all warnings and inescapably meet with disaster.'

'Comedies, tragedies, musicals and dramas make this a remarkably diverse theater season.'

'Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.'

'This last and driest of Shakespeare's tragedies is, in some ways, his most unusual.'

'This turns the play into a gripping tragedy and a moving tale of human frailty.'

'is a question that the drama puts with a boldness and clarity few other Shakespeare tragedies bring to their ethical or moral concerns.'

'Did all the gory deaths he witnessed while serving in the Canadian ambulance corps in the Second World War help him play tragedies?'

'Then again, it's a theme of war films to make tragedies all the more tragic, isn't it?'

'He saw comedies, tragedies, dramas, shows of acrobatics and clowning, all accompanied by fine music, and all this performed by a family of only twenty members.'

'One example is the accompanying contemporary, or pop music, with Greek tragedies or Shakespearean plays.'

'Between 1776 and 1794, Cowley produced ten comedies, two tragedies, a farce, and many poems.'

'In Racine's tragedies, confusion often reigns, and from it a tragic reversal takes place.'

'Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping.'

'Three of these plays were usually tragedies, plays that focused on a heroic character who falls due to his own folly.'

'Let's be honest here, Shakespeare's tragedies are filled with dialogue, monologue, and soliloquy.'

'Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romance, history, comedy and problem plays all with great success.'

'By a series of unfortunate circumstances, the tragedy of Othello the Moor, was turned into The Moor The Merrier.'

2.1 mass noun The dramatic genre represented by tragedies.

'The representatives of tragedy and comedy chosen are not Greek but Roman.'

'In other words, shifting the format from theatrical tragedy to televisual sitcom.'

'In the various sessions, it ran up and down the scales from high drama to epic tragedy, from broad comedy to poignant romance.'

'That said, it is still an enjoyable evening - both comedy and tragedy certainly have their moments.'

'That purging of emotions that drama, especially tragedy, is supposed to inspire.'

'The Cheltenham Festival witnessed an opening day of drama laced with tragedy.'

'Emblem books and tragedy can be considered as the two literary genres in which this twofold image of death is best exemplified.'

'But, even if the result is stylised tragedy, the three principals perform with great skill.'

'However, what is there in linguistic gravity, romance and tragedy is slightly lacking in subtlety.'

'This may not be French classical tragedy as we normally understand it.'

'You could accuse him of hitching a lift on the back of Greek tragedy.'

'No one, I confidently told an academic friend this week, writes tragedy any more.'

'To transcend the bounds of tragedy is credit to both writer and performer.'

'I love politics, too, with its human dramas worthy of Greek tragedy, or at least soap opera.'

'There are two uses of the Shakespearean concept of tragedy that could be drawn on.'

'The bedroom scenes were disturbing and memorable, more tragedy then comedy.'

Origin

Late Middle English from Old French tragedie, via Latin from Greek tragōidia, apparently from tragos 'goat' (the reason remains unexplained) + ōidē 'song, ode'. Compare with tragic.

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1 An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. mass noun 'his life had been plagued by tragedy' 'Any road accident that causes a death or serious injury is a tragedy.' 'The patients to undergo this new medical procedure have been seriously disfigured by burns, serious accidents or personal tragedies.'

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Watch the clip below. Would you call this a tragedy?

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Watch the clip below. Would you call this a tragedy?

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Can you think of any other books, films or TV shows you might describe as a tragedy?

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they often ended with a marriage

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a midsummers night's  dream is one of his comedies

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they

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Read the text and explain what the bold words mean in the comments below.

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They end with a marriage

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they often end with people falling in love and marrige

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Explain in your own words what you think a History play might be about?

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Explain in your own words what you think a History play might be about?

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Watch the clip below. Do you think this would be a History movie? Explain why or why not.

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Watch the clip below. Do you think this would be a History movie? Explain why or why not.

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What other examples of history plays, books or movies do you know.

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In what ways are Shakespeare's history plays different to historical films today? Is there anything that is similar?

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You need to choose one of the three genres: comedy, tragedy or history.
You then need to write a short play of 300 words or less featuring 2-3 characters.
You must follow the genre features of that play which you can see in the images below and in your notes.

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Here are the key features you should include in your script.

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normaly have a happy ending

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genre: tragedy