tragedians
Actors of sorrow
Tragedians are actors who specialize in tragic roles, or writers who compose tragedies.
The term evokes classical theater, where performers devoted themselves to the weighty dramas of Sophocles or Shakespeare rather than comedies.
A tragedian brings gravitas to suffering and downfall on stage.
The great tragedians of the Victorian era commanded enormous audiences.
The word can also apply more loosely to anyone with a flair for the dramatic or melancholic.
Father of tragedy
- SophoclesClassical Athenian playwright
- EuripidesGreek tragic dramatist
- SenecaStoic moralist of Rome
- chorusSingers performing together
hubris · catharsis · strophe · antistrophe · orchestra · skene · theatron · mask
Stage performers collectively
- actorsThose playing roles
- troupeTraveling group of performers
- ensembleUnified group or outfit
- castPerformers, throw, or splint
protagonists · interpreters · method · repertory · touring · company · understudy · leading
Period following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
pathos · suffering · despair · catharsis · tears · heartbreak · elegy · dirge
Aeschylus
Father of tragedy
chorus · hubris · catharsis · strophe · antistrophe · orchestra · skene · theatron · mask · trilogy
thespians
Stage performers collectively
cast · protagonists · interpreters · method · repertory · touring · company · understudy · leading · roles
mourning
Period following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- anguishIntense mental suffering
woe · pathos · suffering · despair · catharsis · tears · heartbreak · elegy · dirge · keening
playwrights
Authors of theatrical works
- IbsenNorwegian playwright, drama reformer
- ChekhovRussian short-story master
- O'NeillAmerican theater dramatist
Marlowe · Miller · Williams · Racine · Beckett · Pinter · Kushner · scripts · dramatic · authorship
Hamlet
Danish prince's revenge tragedy
soliloquy · Globe · Irving · iambic · pentameter · Stratford · folio · quarto · Titus · Romeo
- actorsactor, actors, actresses, film actor, actress
- Greek TheaterGreek drama, comedy, Sophocles, Euripides, Greek theater
- Greek LiteratureHomer, myths, Greek poetry, fables, Iliad
- Greek writersHomer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Victorian TheatreHenrik Ibsen, proscenium, Oscar Wilde, footlights, backstage
- Ancient ThinkersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Confucius, Thales