DRAMA / Type / Tragedy

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This article examines the process of ‘musicalization’ (a term coined by M.D. Sabinina) of drama. According to the author, ‘musical thought’ often guides the playwright’s imagination, becoming both the meaninggenerating and form-creating element of a play. The article aims to demonstrate how, alongside musical quotation, still actively present in drama today, playwrights from different countries and different histori…

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form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences

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A tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering, specifically by way of terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsis, or a "pain [that] awakens pleasure," for the audience. While many cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific…

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A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. *This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.*

Image · DPLA

From a papyrus book containing the Oedipus Tyrannus and no doubt other plays of Sophocles. Parts of 56 lines from the middle and later portions of the drama are preserved, nearly half being lyric. Approximately 43 lines per page. Script is a somewhat irregular sloping uncial of the oval type and probably belongs to the 5th or beginning of the 6th century. These seven small pieces of three leaves are from a papyrus c…