His older brother Giovanni wrote lyric poetry and popular tragedies.
Die Ahnfrau, written in the trochaic Spanish verse form, has many of the outward features of the then-popular "fate tragedy" (Schicksalsdrama), but the characters are themselves ultimately responsible for their own destruction.
Richard Sewall, finally (appointed 1934), was known chiefly as author of a popular book on tragedy until he wrote his prize-winning biography of Emily Dickinson.
And as popular culture transmuted tragedy into morbid comedy, a misquote from the movie, "A dingo ate my baby!," caught on, popping up in "Seinfeld," "The Simpsons" and other shows.
Ms. Klein's popular blog, Greek Tragedy, chronicles her personal life and helped her earn six-figure book deal, while Ms. Armstrong's snarky mommy blog, Dooce.com, is so successful that her husband quit his job to help her manage it full time.
prolific playwright noted for his efforts to make verse tragedy a popular form.
Mr. Sauerland, who sought out the annual music event for his city, was hugely popular here until the tragedy.
Quite independently in Spain, dramatists embarked upon a parallel development of genres ranging from popular farce to chivalric tragedy.
In any case, he says, he didn't find the bedridden, unwashed, irreparably damaged tragedy of popular myth.
(Saltz) 'CATO' The Flea Theater mounts a rare and powerful staging of Joseph Addison's popular early-18th-century tragedy about an unsuccessful civil war plotted against Julius Caesar.
