Theodor Adorno and Brecht are two of the central figures to suggest that tragedy has become defunct, that its power has become lost as it has become institutionalised. When tragedy is hijacked by the establishment for their own ends it becomes a set of banal convictions about the inevitability of suffering.
Barthes “Tragedy is only a way of assembling human misfortune, of subsuming if, and thus of justifying it by putting it into a form of necessity, of a kind of wisdom, or a purification”

Tragedy needs to be questioned, its values constantly challenged, it must philosophise not lecture. The second tragedy becomes a formula and a system, it is dead. It should never become a vehicle to justify some other system of values.