“The media has described the recent tragedy as a natural disaster.”

“This turns the play into a gripping tragedy and a moving tale of human frailty.”

“Comedy and tragedy do not co-exist well and the gap between them widens as the film progresses.”

“They discuss theatrical affairs before the players arrive, when Hamlet has their chief tragedian recite a speech about the destruction of Troy.”

“Comedian, tragedian and heartthrob, his distinction lies in the very indistinction of his career.”

“We might think of him as misplaced, a tragedian performing in cabaret perhaps.”

“She was a glamorous loser, a musical comedy tragedienne, a mixture of frivolity and misfortune.”

“Her skills as a tragedienne come forward in Rigoletto and even more so in La traviata, where she is an unforgettably poignant Violetta.”

“However, she was also a tragedienne not only on-screen, but, sadly, off-screen as well.”

“Shakespeare is often regarded as the greatest tragedist in the history of English literature.”

“Peter Brook's La tragedie de Carmen fit ideally into the Margaret Green-ham Theatre at the Banff Centre.”

“The superior Q2 called the play The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet.”

“As a result La Tragedie d'Hamlet had its only UK showing in French at Warwick Arts Centre and a lasting friendship between the director and the organisation was born.”

“Those of you who are familiar with the Classical Greek tragedy, also probably know Plato's attack on the Classical Greek tragedians.”

“And ever since then, scholars have remarked on the difference between the two tragedians as involving something like the ideal and the real.”

“It reminded us that some of the zaniest players can play tragedy better than tragedians.”

“The Tokugawa Period gave rise to the bunraku puppet drama and kabuki theater, for which Chikamatsu wrote tragedies.”

“From nature to human tragedies, the photographs tell tales reams of paper cannot.”

“Incompetent and dangerous laboratories would be weeded out and further tragedies like these minimized.”

“For those of us who are political tragics, the smell of battle is in the air.”

“It's one of those moments that cricket tragics such as ourselves will never forget.”

“The game had to build on its enormous base, as it developed a broad appeal to sports fans, even if they weren't soccer tragics.”