tragedist

Why, too, as a matter of verbal criticism, should the author use such words as "tragedist," "exhibitress," and "cheaty?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Groff has had an uncanny instinct for landing provocative parts in great shows, created by well-recognized artists such as the legendary Greek tragedist, the Oscar-winning Lee, or the award-winning playwright Craig Lucas.

Brad Balfour: Q&A: Actor Jonathan Groff's Charmed, Provocative Life On Stage and In Film 2009

I cannot help avowing my fears that he is deficient in some qualifications, which, although not as splendid, are just as necessary to complete a tragedist, as that one which

Review 2005

I have frequently mentioned the os magna sonans; this is the first great qualification for a tragedist, and this qualification the Author of the Bride's

Review 2005

He thinks the tragedist might better have let Felix be actuated by zeal for the pagan gods.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

The tragedist has generously bestowed upon wicked Queen Athaliah a certain loftiness of spirit which, in its display in the final catastrophe, almost redeems her to admiration, if not to sympathy.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Of the melodramatist we require merely the negative virtue that he shall not lie: of the tragedist we require the positive virtue that he shall reveal some phase of the absolute, eternal Truth.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

A spirit partly kindred to the tragedist, Archbishop Fénelon, will presently be shown to have had at about the same time a partly similar experience.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

The melodramatist exhibits merely what may happen; the tragedist exhibits what must happen.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Montaigne, for example, was sometimes obscure; and even the tragedist

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson