NOUN
- a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
- an actor who specializes in tragic roles
How To Use tragedian In A Sentence
- The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century B.C.
- Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist. The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
- A tragedian is a hard character only on the stage, but the comedian is the comedian always. The Idiot
- Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians.
- Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.
- Dan Donohue, who plays the title role in the OSF production of "Hamlet" that I praised in this space last week, doubles as the snobbish headwaiter of "She Loves Me," and he turns out to be as good a comedian as he is a tragedian. In Love With 'She Loves Me'
- Not even the greatest of ancient tragedians could have written the script, most commentators agreed.
- There were incredible conditions of prejudice, they faced all sorts of restraints, yet they were dancing, singing, acting comedians, tragedians - you name it.
- It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens. Archive 2009-03-01
- 'demoniac' manner of contemporary tragedians, I take leave to think that no player has been more worthy to wear the _canons_ of M.scarille or the gown of Vadius than M. Coquelin of the Comédie Francaise. Letters to Dead Authors
