Sentence examples for tragic play from inspiring English sources

They appear like beings from another world, or characters in a tragic play acted dimly behind thin curtains.

(Gold) 'The Hamlet Project' (closes on Monday) Mashing a wacky interactive drinking game with Shakespeare's tragic play leads to an inexpensive and unexpectedly good time (2 10).

Berlioz's "l?nde dramatique," inspired by Goethe's tragic play "Faust," is among the highlights of that composer's oeuvre for its extraordinary music and visceral impact.

The only real distinction left to this man, who was once a true hero, is that his life is worthy of dramatization as a tragic play or opera.

Opening on 21 July, the tragic play by Euripides will feature Helen McCrory in the iconic title role, a woman plotting the downfall of her husband who plans to remarry into a royal family.

Goethe's tragic play "Faust" held a strong fascination for Berlioz from the very beginning of his career, as evidenced by an early setting of portions of the work from 1828.

"I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays," Walcott says.

During this time he already aimed at a literary career, but as the writer of Cromwell (1819) and other tragic plays he was utterly unsuccessful.

"Wozzeck," of course, was based on a dramatic fragment, while Berg drew on two tragic plays by Frank Wedekind when he wrote the text for "Lulu".

And yet however classical this rhetorical appeal to an ennobling relationship between the quality of the citizenry and the forms of the entertainment it enjoys -- attending the tragic plays, let's remember, was a state-subsidized activity in Athens -- the authentically Greek take on Kim's death was best summed up by Kim himself.

Fielding had earlier written The Covent Garden Tragedy, a mock-tragic play concerning the tale of two prostitutes.