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The 1962 Royal-Thomian had an ending of a Greek Drama-by Senaka Weeraratna   Gowrishankaran opening with J.D. Wilson  Source:Sundaytimes A typical Greek drama ends ‘with neither a villain nor a virtuous man but a character between these two extremes, a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty (hamartia)’. The effect on the audience will be similarly ambiguous. A perfect tragedy, Aristotle says in his ‘Poetics’, should imitate actions that excite both ‘pity and fear’. ...