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Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction BISAC-LAN027000 scientists at a Hawaiian observatoryTo your local anchorperson, the word tragedy brings to mind an accidental fire at a low income apartment block, the horrors of a natural disaster, or atrocities occurring in distant lands. To a classicist however, the word brings to mind the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Racine; beautiful dramas featuring romanticized torment. What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, storytellers, philosophers, politicians, and journalists over