Get your carton of ice cream ready and keep a box of tissues close at hand, because you're about to explore every aspect of tragedy. Tragedy as a dramatic art, that is. You'll explore a classic tragedy, Oedipus Rex, as well as tragedy in the Middle Ages and Mr. Bill Shakespeare's take on tragedy.

Co-written by Robert J. Fehrenbach, Ph.D., of The College of William and Mary and Ann R. Meyer, Ph.D., of Claremont McKenna College