Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course it is also possible to read the play as literary criticism in literary terms of the tragic tradition, and of Sophocles' Electra and Aeschylus' Eumenides in particular. Euripides packs his recognition scene with allusions to earlier versions of the same myth and to several apposite situations in Homer...
HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet wanted to be-the self-assured ruler of his fortunes, and never the tormented prey of a tragic destiny. It is a portrayal alight with intelligence, but rarely aflame with feeling...
...TROJAN WOMEN. This tragic masterpiece by Euripides is 2,400 years old, but in its current superb production, it is the most profoundly alive drama to be found in New York...
...Absalom! pursue the story of Thomas Sutpen, who came to Mississippi with wagonloads of savage blacks in 1832 determined to change a lOO-sq.-mi. piece of virgin forest into a plantation. Sutpen is a creature of high-flown words and naked will-and perhaps the closest to a tragic hero in the classical Greek sense that U.S. literature has produced...
...students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness. Austin Lawyer Arthur ("The Garrulous Greek") Mitchell, who claims to have crammed half the lawyers in Texas, dramatizes the "life" in the law. "I tell them the law is comical, the law is tragic, the law is real," says Mitchell. "The things that happen in law are things that happen to people...