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Shakespeare: Tragedy Class 101
If you were to walk out onto a street and get hit by a car, people
might think this is a tragedy, referring to the common usage of the word as
meaning anything bad that happens to a person or society. But in the days
of Shakespeare, the word tragedy had on more significant meanings; i ....
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Denmark where he, the prince of Denmark, was usurped of his throne by the
marriage of his uncle and the Queen. Yelland said that magnitude is also
"evident in the large simplicity of the action, in the power and intensity
of the conflicts involved, and in the poetry and dignity of the expression"
(207). In essence, it is the pieces of the plays, united together, that
creates magnitude.
A tragedy without unity is a tragedy itself. Tragedy needs to
consist of a central idea in order to give the play meaning and purpose.
It needs to hav ....
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