11.   Greek tragedy and situation comedy.

12.   Greek tragedy is generally a tough sell outside university campuses or summer shows in outdoor amphitheaters on Mediterranean package tours.

13.   His play, like the ancient Greek tragedies, is more concerned with motivation than with what actually happens.

14.   His father, Harry Einstein, was an ethnic comic whose life ended as if it were a Mel Brooks version of a Greek tragedy.

15.   I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

16.   If someone suggests that she may be a little unhinged, she responds with a furious monologue that suggests a werewolf playing Greek tragedy.

17.   In a reckoning that might have come out of Greek tragedy, his unique gifts of movement and speech are seriously impaired.

18.   In creating the monologues he said he consciously borrowed the techniques of Greek tragedy, like characters telling of horrific events that have occurred offstage.

19.   In hands as talented as these, domestic disturbances are staged with all the import of Greek tragedy.

20.   In this, his first taste of labor relations, baseball-style, Richard Ravitch must wonder at times if he has walked into a Greek tragedy.