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Tragedy (n.) tells ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠of the birth of law and its deadly effects on men.

Tragedy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a wrestling match between the jealousy of the gods and the excess of men: Oedipus loses, and comes out larger and reconciled.

Tragedy (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Oedipus the King, the drama of power-holding: the play unfolds between two greetings, "all-powerful Oedipus" and "you who were at the summit".

Tragedy (n.) meant ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hunger for the peasant until the 18th century; from the 19th it became, like all great tragedy since the Greeks, the tragedy of the law — of the Code, marriage, land and possession.

Tragedy (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its classical form is nothing but the confrontation of two realms — day and night — linked by time in the irreconcilable; every day in Racine is overhung by a night it drags into the light.