Tragedy topic

Tragedy (, tragōidia, "goat-song") is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most culture have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy 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... full article at wikipedia