"We don't want to have to look back on some historical tragedy that could have been prevented."

This solitary drama might be the last, meaningless act of a historical tragedy, yet to play to its conclusion.

Instead of trying to keep the failing school going, Johnson began to write his first major work, the historical tragedy Irene.

The point was that the Alamo was a historical tragedy.

The drama Zriny, an historical tragedy, is the most ambitious of his works.

He has mentioned in interview that he is "obsessed by historical tragedies."

Her plays "range from historical tragedy to domestic comedy and use both traditional and modern African setting".

With these historical tragedies began the darkest ten years in the poet's life.

Vietnam was one of the historical tragedies which would eventually follow from this insecurity.

"After two or three years, it's a historical tragedy and that's it."