| Not even the greatest of ancient tragedians could have written the script, most commentators agreed. |
| And ever since then, scholars have remarked on the difference between the two tragedians as involving something like the ideal and the real. |
| How could Milton the classicist, the tragedian, the epic writer, reject Plato, the Greek tragedians, and Homer himself? |
| It reminded us that some of the zaniest players can play tragedy better than tragedians. |
| Those of you who are familiar with the Classical Greek tragedy, also probably know Plato's attack on the Classical Greek tragedians. |
| Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians. |
