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- In Britain, the first domestic tragedies were written in the English Renaissance; one of the first was Arden of Faversham (1592), depicting the murder of a bourgeois man by his adulterous wife. Other famous examples are A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), and The Witch of Edmonton (1621).
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Domestic tragedy did not take hold, however, until reintroduced in the 18th century by George Lillo with The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell (1731).
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Domestic tragedy disappeared during the era of Restoration drama, when Neoclassicism dominated the stage, but it emerged again with the work of George Lillo and Sir Richard Steele in the eighteenth century.
Apr 26, 2024 · Domestic tragedy was revived in prose by George Lillo with The London Merchant (1732) and his new version of Arden of Feversham (1759). Lillo's influence led to the appearance of ‘domestic’ prose dramas in Germany with G. E. Lessing's tragedy Miss Sara Sampson (1755), and in France with Diderot's drames.
Oct 13, 2021 · Overall, Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies provides a fresh perspective on the centrality of household violence to early modern debates about the domestic sphere, as acts of violence put pressure on the ideologies that sustained the moral, political, and religious integrity of the home.
May 1, 2013 · Tragedy begins in ancient Greece, of course, and the first great tragedies were staged as part of a huge festival known as the City Dionysia. Thousands of Greek citizens - Greek men, that is, for no women were allowed - would gather in the vast amphitheatre to watch a trilogy of tragic plays, such as….
In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works.
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.
