About 190 results for ‘Tragedy’
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Tragedy
Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. While many cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilization. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity—"the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes and Christians, in a common activity," as Raymond Williams puts it. From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2,500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change. A long line of philosophers—which includes Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Camus, Lacan, and Deleuze—have analysed, speculated upon, and criticised the tragic form. In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics (335 BCE), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general (where the tragic divides against epic and lyric) or at the scale of the drama (where tragedy is opposed to comedy). In the modern era, tragedy has also been defined against drama, melodrama, the tragicomic, and epic theatre.
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ROMEO ET JULIETTE (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Balcony
- Kiss
- Romeo and Juliet
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- Date:
- 19th century
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JUDITH ET HOLOPHERNE (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- City
- Holofernes
- Jerusalem
- Man
- Military camp
- Sabre
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
LE COUCHER DE DESDEMONE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bed
- Domestic worker
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
Macbeth et les trois sorcières
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Divination
- Equestrianism
- Horse
- Old age
- Witchcraft
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
DESDEMONE ou LA ROMANCE DU SAULE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Domestic worker
- Hygiene
- Singing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coypel
ATHALIE CHASSEE DU TEMPLE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Arrest
- Jehoash of Judah
- Jerusalem
- Judaism
- Pike (weapon)
- Priesthood (Catholic Church)
- …
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coypel
L'EVANOUISSEMENT D'ESTHER
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Domestic worker
- Esther
- Haman (Bible)
- Palace
- Syncope (medicine)
- Throne
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
HAMLET ET OPHELIE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Conversation
- Insanity
- Ophelia
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
HAMLET ET HORATIO AU CIMETIERE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cemetery
- Conversation
- Horatio (Hamlet)
- Skull
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Delacroix
HAMLET ET HORATIO AU CIMETIERE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cemetery
- Horatio (Hamlet)
- Skull
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
PHEDRE ET HIPPOLYTE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bow and arrow
- Dog
- Helmet
- Hippolyta
- Jealousy
- Phaedra (mythology)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre Mignard
Portrait présumé de Jean Racine (1639-1699), dramaturge
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Charles-Antoine Coypel
L'EVANOUISSEMENT D'ATALIDE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Roxana
- Syncope (medicine)
- Tragedy
- Vase
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jules-Élie Delaunay
Ophélie
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Anemone
- Crown (headgear)
- Flower
- Leucanthemum vulgare
- Ophelia
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Henry Fuseli
LADY MACBETH SOMNAMBULE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Domestic worker
- Lady Macbeth
- Night
- Physician
- Remorse
- Torch
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Phèdre et Hippolyte
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bow and arrow
- Dog
- Helmet
- Hippolyta
- Jealousy
- Phaedra (mythology)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Andromaque et Pyrrhus
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Andromache
- Astyanax
- Child
- Hermione (mythology)
- Jealousy
- Neoptolemus
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
ORESTE ANNONCANT A HERMIONE LA MORT DE PYRRHUS
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Fear
- Hermione (mythology)
- Orestes
- Port (disambiguation)
- Poseidon
- Ronde-bosse
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
PHEDRE ET HIPPOLYTE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bow and arrow
- Dog
- Helmet
- Hippolyta
- Jealousy
- Phaedra (mythology)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Peter Paul Rubens
ALLEGORIE DE LA MUSIQUE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Apollo
- Comedy
- Hippocrene
- Lyre
- Mask
- Mount Helicon
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- Date:
- 16th century
- 17th century
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