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Brewer's: Bonduca

= Boadicea. (Fletcher's Tragedy, 1647.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BoneBona-roba A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

The Marshall Tragedy

The worst plane crash ever of an American sports team by Michael Morrison The fountain on the Marshall University campus commemorating the plane crash of 75 athletes and supporters in 1970.…

The Tragedy of Macbeth

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The Tragedy of Coriolanus

ContentsDramatis PersonaeAct IScene IScene IIScene IIIScene IVScene VScene VIScene VIIScene VIIIScene IXScene XAct IIScene IScene II. The same. The Capitol.Scene IIIAct IIIScene IScene IIScene…

Brewer's: Tragedy

The goat-song (Greek, tragos-ode). The song that wins the goat as a prize. This is the explanation given by Horace ( De Arte Poetica, 220). (See Comedy.) Tragedy. The first English…

Chatterton, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Chatterton, Thomas, 1752–70, English poet. The posthumous son of a poor Bristol schoolmaster, he was already composing the “Rowley Poems” at the age of 12, claiming they were copies of…

Todorov, Tzvetan

(Encyclopedia) Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939–2017, Bulgarian-French literary theorist, historian of ideas, and sociologist, b. Sofia, Bulgaria, Ph.D. Univ. of Paris, 1966. He joined (1968) the National…

The Boston Marathon Tragedy

Three people were killed and hundreds injured after multiple bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon. Boston Marathon Shrine, April 20, 2013 Photo credit: Natalie Baumgardner…

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

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The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

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