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Tragic Writing

Tragic Writing is a mode of dramatic composition that belongs to the broader category of playwriting and is distinguished by its structured portrayal of a protagonist’s irreversible descent into suffering or downfall, evoked through moral conflict, fatal flaw, or existential crisis, with the aim of eliciting catharsis in the audience.

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17.5K

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551

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105

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2017–2026

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Publications

441

Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.

Jonathan Crewe, Jonathan Dollimore · MLN · 1985 · 514 citations

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The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama

Dorothea Kehler, Catherine Belsey · Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 1987 · 508 citations

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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics.

Rita Charon, Arthur W. Frank · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1996 · 502 citations

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Sweet violence: the idea of the tragic

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 500 citations

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The wounded storyteller: Body, illness, and ethics

Elisa J. Gordon · Social Science & Medicine · 1996 · 335 citations

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Authors

551

  1. MN
    Michael Neill

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    3 publications · 79 citations

    3

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  2. CB
    Carlos Baker

    3 publications · 145 citations

    3

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  3. JK
    John Kerrigan

    Barrow Neurological Institute, United States

    3 publications · 278 citations

    3

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  4. FC
    Francisco Collado Rodríguez

    Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

    2 publications · 38 citations

    2

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  5. FM
    Franklin M. Dickey

    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, United States

    2 publications · 29 citations

    2

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1–5 of 551

Institutions

105

  1. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    199 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    33 citations

  3. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    22 citations

  4. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  5. University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    43 citations

  6. Queen's University

    Kingston, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  7. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  8. Gunma University

    Maebashi, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    57 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 65 publications · 3.1K citations

    27

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  2. Shakespeare Quarterly

    30 publications · 1K citations

    19

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  3. The Modern Language Review

    20 publications · 945 citations

    16

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  4. American Literature

    16 publications · 402 citations

    13

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  5. The Yearbook of English Studies

    10 publications · 653 citations

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