tragedian

She is, however, a compelling tragedian — a teen who matures before our eyes into a force of nature.

By the 4th century BCE, Athenian orators even quoted lines from the tragedians in court, knowing that jurors “liked quotations from tragedy,” in one scholar’s words.

Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Beckett, the ancient Greek tragedians and Tennessee Williams were among the voices who originally called out to me.

Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

If the best description of a play had been coined centuries earlier by Shakespeare or a Greek tragedian, Scully would not shy from quoting the master.