The Twentieth Century and the tragedy of commom man
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https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v27i46.19636Keywords:
Tragedy. Tragic. Modernity. LoweringAbstract
Along the twentieth century, a long-lasting debate on tragedy and the possibility of its recreation in a time so distant from the fifth century B.C. ”“ when tragedy arose and got to its acme, and also when Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the three great tragedians of Greece, produced their works ”“ took place. Thinkers from several fields of the humanities took part in these discussions. This article sums up their ideas and shows up how the human being stature, social position and language were getting lower and lower. As a result, throughout the twentieth century, dramatists such as Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Nelson Rodrigues recreated tragedy in a modern fashion: a common man tragedy.
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