tragedies

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“Coriolanus” has never been one of Shakespeare’s more popular tragedies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Dyer's great-grandmother said her grandson had been the family's "final beacon of hope" after a "relentless sequence of tragedies".

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

What follows are flights of wordplay, jokes, tragedies and rhymes “meant to be spoken aloud, as a form of conjuring back.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Boy Moms stand alone, the main characters in what often seem like one-woman romantic tragedies of doomed longing.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Theo’s sadness seems justified, caused by real tragedies.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman