Module 2-Part 2-What is Tragedy?

Download or stream the video found at: http://unitedstreaming.com
Log on with the username holman472 and the password: steps.

Once at the website, to locate the video easily, click on the playlist titled: "Shakespeare Course" You will be watching Module 2: "What is Tragedy?"

Watch the video (approx. 26 minutes long)
Refer to the "Viewing Guide" that you received in your email as you watch the video.

Answer the following questions:
1. What poet described tragedy as a "terrible beauty?"
2. How does Oedipus confront the facts of his past?
3. Which two tragedies by Shakespeare focus on TWO tragic figures?
4. What's one characteristic of a tragedy?
5. Is Oedipus a tragic figure? Why?
6. What is the Wheel of Fortune?