NOUN
- a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
- an actor who specializes in tragic roles
How To Use tragedian In A Sentence
- The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century B.C.
- She gives us Sondheim the romantic ("Take the Moment"), Sondheim the trickster (his little known Gershwin homage "More"), Sondheim the tragedian ("Loving You") and Sondheim the showman ("Let Me Entertain You"). Dizzy's Welcomes an Old Friend
- Joni Mitchell: In a way, I think I entered straight into my tragedian period, as my work is set against the stupid, destructive way we live on this planet. Friday Morning Time Slip « Gerry Canavan
- And ever since then, scholars have remarked on the difference between the two tragedians as involving something like the ideal and the real.
- The Greek tragedian Euripides, for example, rarely took first prize in Athenian dramatic competitions.
- Betterton the tragedian; where he exhibited, two years afterwards, 1697, the Mourning Bride, a tragedy, so written as to show him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatick poetry. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
- In the Aristophanes original, Aeschylus and Euripides debated over which of the two was the best tragedian.
- The Bacchae, a play by the Greek tragedian Euripides , shows a dramatic view of the confrontation between instincts and institutions.
- He retired from the stage in 1817 with a final performance as Coriolanus, widely respected as a great tragedian and as Garrick's successor in the promotion and playing of Shakespeare.
- As Aeschylus and other tragedians appreciated, words could be used to make what is false appear true and what was true false.
