Is Tragedy still Alive?

Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre or and other creative arts.
Date Published: 1 March 2010
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Contributors: Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
In Collection(s): Questioning Genre
Keywords: literature, greek, Aristotle, the novel, Hardy, shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, comedy, philosophy, society, history of ideas, modern tragedy, theory of tragedy, #greatwriters
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