Tragedy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...struggling to remove. The protagonist may be brought low by a character flaw or, as Hegel stated, caught in a "collision of...Dionysus (5th cent. b.c.). The ritual entailed the presentation of four successive plays (three tragedies, one comedy). Each was based on situations and characters drawn from myth, and the tragedies ended in catastrophe...