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genre. tragicomedy, dramatic work incorporating both tragic and comic elements. When coined by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the 2nd century bc, the word denoted a play in which gods and men, masters and slaves reverse the roles traditionally assigned to them, gods and heroes acting in comic burlesque and slaves adopting tragic dignity.
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Literature. Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. [1] Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended ...
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Introduction. The English Renaissance produced some of the major tragic works in Western literature. While most readers associate this period with the plays of William Shakespeare, other playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster also made enormous contributions to the flowering of the genre.
Oct 28, 2022 · The Italian Renaissance reinvents modern dramatic theatre. In the second decade of the sixteenth century, tragedy first resurfaces in narrow philological circles. Playwrights and men of learning recover ancient texts and advance new theoretical considerations on a multitude of aspects pertaining to the genre – philological, literary ...
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May 10, 2010 · The drama of Renaissance England was truly remarkable and not just because William Shakespeare wrote during that era. Among his colleagues as dramatists were Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, all of whom wrote plays of lasting greatness. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Edward II; Kyd’s The Spanish ...
Tragicomedy could well be regarded as the major Renaissance contribution to the history of theatrical genre. Its very label describes a process of mingling or crossover, and seems appropriate to a period which witnessed a greedy assimilation of literary forms (especially the newly rediscovered Greek and Roman ones) and their combination with ...
the more primitive genre of tragicomedy may break through the restraining structures of comedy and tragedy" (p. 7). As might be expected, then, Renaissance Tragicomedy is divided into two parts. The first, titled "The Generic Context," attempts to define the nature of tragicomedy through analysis of its distinctive conventions and its literary and
