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O'Neill : pessimism too radical for tragedy Tragedy in Nō drama Ethics and art— Plato and Aristotle. TRAGEDY AND MODERN DRAMA Tragic themes in Ibsen , Strindberg , and Chekhov . The movement toward naturalism in fiction in the latter ...
O'Neill : pessimism too radical for tragedy Tragedy in Nō drama Ethics and art— Plato and Aristotle. TRAGEDY AND MODERN DRAMA Tragic themes in Ibsen , Strindberg , and Chekhov . The movement toward naturalism in fiction in the latter ...
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... tragedy as a separate genre , superior to epic poetry , Horace discussed it as a genre with a sepa- rate style , again with considerations of decorum foremost . A theme for comedy may not be set forth in verses of tragedy ; each style ...
... tragedy as a separate genre , superior to epic poetry , Horace discussed it as a genre with a sepa- rate style , again with considerations of decorum foremost . A theme for comedy may not be set forth in verses of tragedy ; each style ...
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... tragedy is the deeper insight , that it is not his own individual sins that the hero atones for , but original sin ... tragedy seems to Schopenhauer far to surpass the other two . His reason , almost too grim to record , is that it ...
... tragedy is the deeper insight , that it is not his own individual sins that the hero atones for , but original sin ... tragedy seems to Schopenhauer far to surpass the other two . His reason , almost too grim to record , is that it ...
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