tragedian in English

noun
1
an actor who specializes in tragic roles.
It reminded us that some of the zaniest players can play tragedy better than tragedians .

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1. 13 He kept referring to Wehman as a tragedian.

2. Aeschylus was a Greek tragedian who gave his life to dramatic arts

3. 17 In another bill he was the "world-renowned Shakespearian tragedian, Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane, London."

4. More sportingly, the 5th century BC tragedian Euripides often played with the old traditions, mocking them, and through the voice of his characters injecting notes of doubt.

5. ‘My lord th** king is dead!” "Oh, is be?" altared the leading tragedian, turning upon the much Befeather-cd messenger a look of eternal hatred.

6. Recent Examples on the Web No actor has ever emerged as fully formed, as original and with such unique timing as Streisand does here, gracefully blending romantic lead with outrageous clown, Broadway Belter and heartbreaking tragedian

7. “The Bacchae, as we know it, was first produced in Athens under the direction of Euripides’ son, also called Euripides, in perhaps 405 BC, a year or two after his father’s death, but when the tragedian first presented the play he was in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus (…)