tragedic

comparative more tragedic · superlative most tragedic

1. Relating to tragedy, the genre.

   The capacity of pastoral to assimilate a tragedic apparatus is tested in Il pastor fido.

   1998, Robert Henke, “Pastoral as Tragicomedic in Italian and Shakespearean Drama”, in Michele Marrapodi, A. J. Hoenselaars, editors, The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama, University of Delaware Press, page 292

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   In 1911 the poet wrote a brilliant book in which he discusses three aspects of Dostoevsky's work: "Tragedic" (which we noted in our definition of "novel-tragedy"), "Mythological," and "Theological."

   1971, Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work, Princeton University Press, page vii

   The emotions of fear and pity, in Aristotle's account of tragedic emotion, would therefore correspond to the beginning and ending in his account of tragedic plot.

   2009, J. David Velleman, How We Get Along, Cambridge University Press, page 198

   Nevertheless, the play also establishes him as an ethically compromised, fifth-century tragedic version of Achilles, much as its Odysseus is a late fifth-century tragedic version of his epic namesake.

   2012, Seth L. Schein, “Sophocles and Homer”, in Kirk Ormand, editor, A Companion to Sophocles, John Wiley & Sons, page 436