A Tragedian in Spite of Himself Russian: Трагик поневоле, romanized: Tragik ponyevole, also known as A Reluctant Tragic Hero) is an 1889 one-act play by...

which also includes The Proposal, A Tragedian in Spite of Himself, and the unfinished Night before the Trial. In a letter to Yakov Polonsky on February...

(Медведь, 1888)—a farce in one act A Marriage Proposal (Предложение, c. 1889)—a farce in one act A Tragedian in Spite of Himself or A Reluctant Tragic...

heritage. Around the time of Olga's birth, her father, Leonard, was in charge of a factory in Glazov, a small town northeast of European Russia. Two years...

Че́хова) was a Russian teacher, artist, founder of the Chekhov Memorial House museum in Yalta, and a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Anton...

important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection"...

4th century tragedian Astydamas, which the historian Plutarch described as a masterpiece on par with those of Aeschylus and Sophocles In Dante Alighieri's...

and in Peace for his gluttony and lack of talent. Philocles: A nephew of the great tragedian, Aeschylus, he wrote a play about Tereus that was a feeble...

miraculously obtains a private peace treaty with the Spartans and enjoys the benefits of peace in spite of opposition from some of his fellow Athenians...

love to him in spite of her family's hatred of the Montagues. Romeo makes himself known to her, and they agree to be married. With the help of Friar Laurence...

Jackson in 2016 and 2019. Shakespeare wrote the role of Lear for his company's chief tragedian, Richard Burbage, for whom Shakespeare was writing incrementally...

Hermai was probably destroyed in the Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC). There was a popular, now lost play by the tragedian Astydamas with Hermes as the...

The preservation of many classical and archaic works of art and literature (including the works of the three great classical tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles...

which led the tragedian (who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the...

"Conrad was first and foremost a Pole and like many Poles a politician and moralist malgré lui [French: "in spite of himself"]. These are his fundamentals...

explain behavior in such crises as plagues, massacres, and wars. In spite of his stature as a historian, modern historians know relatively little about Thucydides's...

 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays...

Dead; Zeus the Tragedian, the Ferry-boat, Etc. George Bell & Sons. pp. 18–. MTYOLns5pAcC. Pearse, Roger. "Lucian of Samosata : THE PASSING OF PEREGRINUS"...

of tragedy in art. During this time Rothko was influenced by ancient Greek tragedians such as Aeschylus and his reading of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy...

included the assassination of President Lincoln by a famous tragedian in 1865 Young Medardus – 1923 Austrian film by Michael Curtiz in which young Viennese...

this "famous gracer of tragedians", as Robert Greene had called him, is recorded as being buried the same day in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford...

identified Eos with Hemera, the primordial goddess of the day; each of the three great Athenian tragedians, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, used "Hemera"...

official part of the festival celebration in 486 BC, and prizes were offered for the best productions. As with the tragedians, few works remain of the great...

/ˌdaɪ.ə.nɪˈzaɪ.ə.kə/ (‹See Tfd›Greek: Διονυσιακά, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus. It is an epic in 48 books...

parallels or is discussed in these sources: Inscription of Ameni. Egypt. 20th century BCE. (response to famine). Ezekiel the Tragedian. Exagōgē. 2nd century...