A rose by any other name would still have thorns.

Oh. I thought that ...A nose by any other name would smell a sweet.

I saw Bill Moyers' new PBS show last night wherein Herman Gollob, author of Me and Shakespeare, stated that the common theme of the tragedies was the conflict between ego and altruism. Using that idea, could a tragedy even be written today? IMHO, altruism has been murdered.