Sentence examples for psychological tragedy from inspiring English sources

But good as it was, I still prefer Alan Ayckbourn's more naturalistic production, which reminded us that Arthur Miller's play is a social, as well as a psychological, tragedy.

"This is a tragedy beyond psychological scope," she wrote.

In "Elektra," Strauss turned Greek tragedy into psychological drama, catnip for a post-Freud era.

"This is a social psychological concept, called the tragedy of the commons.

If not quite the national playwright that William Shakespeare is for the English, in the great plays of his maturity—"The Good Person of Szechuan", "Mother Courage and Her Children", "The Life of Galileo" and "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"—Brecht easily matches the theatrical scope and psychological depth of Shakespearean tragedy.

— he vowed to avoid "a psychological drama or a Shakespearean tragedy".

The confrontation between diverse codes of behaviour may yield comedy, tragedy, or new psychological insights.

As the story continues, it pulls in strains of family tragedy, Gothic horror, psychological thriller, and religious allegory.

I don't mean to turn this tragedy into a psychological experiment, but I'm reminded of this selective attention test.

Born into a modest middle-class family — his father was a bank employee — he had a cultured but conservative upbringing until his teens, when, he says, a family tragedy triggered a psychological rebellion.

Bradley analyzed tragedy "from the psychological point of view," suggesting that readers of "Hamlet" "would understand it better if they read an account of melancholia in a work on mental diseases".