tragedy: is a form of drama based on human suffering that involves in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing.

while many cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxial response, tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition if western civilization, that tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerfull effect of cultural identify and historial continuity - "the greeks and the elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes and christians, in a common activity" as Raymond Williams puts it. From its obscure origins in the theaters of athenas 2500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, lope de vega, racine, and schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, becketts modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and mullers postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negation, struggle, and change

tragedia: es una forma de drama basado en el sufrimiento humano que implica, en su audiencia de una catarsis de acompaamiento o de placer en lavisualizacin. mientras que las culturas se han desarrollado muchas formas que provocan esta respuesta paradoxial, la tragedia a menudo se refiere a una tradicin especfica de drama que ha desempeado un papel nico e importantehistricamente en la auto-definicin, si la civilizacin occidental, que la tradicin ha sido mltiples y discontinuas, sin embargo, el trmino a menudo se hautilizado para invocar un efecto de gran alcance de la identidad cultural y la continuidad historial - "Los griegos y los isabelinos, en una forma cultural;helenos y cristianos, en una actividad comn" como Raymond Williams se pone.De origen oscuro es en los teatros de Athenas 2500 aos atrs, de la cual nosobrevive slo una fraccin de la obra de Esquilo, Sfocles y Eurpides, a travs de su articulacin singulares en las obras de Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, de Racine, y Schiller, a la tragedia naturalista ms reciente de Strindberg, Beckettmodernistas meditaciones sobre la muerte, la prdida y el sufrimiento, y lareelaboracin posmoderna de Muller del canon trgica, la tragedia se ha mantenido un importante lugar de experimentacin cultural, la negacin, la lucha y cambiar