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Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real figures throughout the history of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio.
- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was...
- English
Macbeth (/ m ə k ˈ b ɛ θ /, full title The Tragedie of...
- William Shakespeare
The plays grouped as Shakespeare tragedies follow the Aristotelian model of a noble, flawed protagonist who makes a mistake and suffers a fall from his position, before the normal order is somehow resumed.
Cite. Summary. ‘Double, double toil and trouble . . .’. (Mac. 4.1.10) An eminent Shakespearean scholar famously remarked that there is no such thing as Shakespearean Tragedy: there are only Shakespearean tragedies.
- Tom McAlindon
- 2003
Decline in 17th-century England. From Shakespeare ’s tragedies to the closing of the theatres in England by the Puritans in 1642, the quality of tragedy is steadily worse, if the best of the Greek and Shakespearean tragedies are taken as a standard.
When we use the word tragedy to describe a Shakespearean play, we are referring foremost to its designation in the First Folio, which divided Shakespeare’s body of work into three genres: tragedy, comedy, and history.
