“This last chapter of my life and this whole last year and chapter for our country — at its most simple form, it’s a tragedy,” Musgraves told Rolling Stone back in February. She went on to talk about ideas like climax and resolution, along with the resilience of tragedy as a form, as muses for its narrative structure.
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Does star-crossed actually stack up against the great works by Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles that the album’s creator has invoked? Photo: John Shearer/MTV VMAs 2021/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS
So Is Kacey Musgraves’s Star-crossed Really a Greek Tragedy? We Asked a Classics Professor.
with Classics Professor Angeline Chu
January 25, 2022