That is what tragedy means. I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word.
When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.