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• n  a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
• n  an actor who specializes in tragic roles

• The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that watching Edmund Kean, the great tragedian of the London stage 200 years ago, was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
• What did the domineering Swedish tragedian and the self-depreciating American comedian have in common? Plenty.
• The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that watching Edmund Kean, the great tragedian of the London stage 200 years ago, was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of .

News & Articles

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• Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival: This Year's Play Is Coriolanus, Set in Outer Space
  When he wanted to be, William Shakespeare was the Martin Scorsese of his time. If you look at the climax of Hamlet and The Departed , the two aren't far off — pretty much everybody dies in a bloody blitzkrieg of deceit and revenge. The Bard was invariably a tragedian, h...
  July 9, 2013 - Broward-Palm Beach New Times

Quotes

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• James Lipton in Forbes
  Deep within the soul of every comedian lurks a tragedian. For good reason, he wants to be something other than funny,says James Lipton, dean of the Actors Studio Drama School.