European learning about evil in tragic setting (8)
I believe the answer is:
elsinore
'tragic setting' is the definition.
(setting of Hamlet)
'european learning about evil' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'learning' becomes 'lore' (I've seen this before).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'evil' becomes 'sin' (I've seen this before).
'lore' going around 'sin' is 'lsinore'.
'e'+'lsinore'='ELSINORE'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for elsinore that I've seen before include "Location for Hamlet" , "setting for play" , "Scene of Hamlet" , "Hamlet's place" , "Danish port, setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet" .)