This document discusses various dramatic genres including romantic comedy, comedy of humors, comedy of manners, tragicomedy, tragedy, and types of tragedy such as Greek tragedy, Roman tragedy, Elizabethan/Jacobean tragedy, revenge tragedy, and domestic tragedy. It provides examples for each genre, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream for romantic comedy, Every Man in His Humor for comedy of humors, and Oedipus Rex for Greek tragedy.
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5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (By
William Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare’s play, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, is a
good example of a romantic
comedy, presenting young lovers
falling comically in and out of love
for a brief period. Their real world
problems get resolved magically,
enemies reconcile, and true lovers
unite in the end.
6. Comedy of Humors
Ben Johnson is the first dramatist who
conceived and popularized this dramatic
genre during the late sixteenth century. The
term humor derives from the Latin word
humor, which means “liquid.” It comes from a
theory that the human body has four liquids,
or humors, which include phelgm, blood,
yellow bile, and black bile. It explains that,
when human beings have a balance of these
humors in their bodies, they remain healthy.
7. Every Man in His Humor (By Ben Johnson)
In his play Every Man in His Humor, Ben
Johnson brings a comedy of humors. An
overpowering suspicion of, and obsession
with, his wife – that she might be unfaithful
to him – controls Kitely. Then a country gull
determines every decision of George
Downright in order to understand the
manners of the city gallant. Kno’well worried
for moral development of his son, tries to spy
on him.
8.
9. Every Man in His Humor (By Ben Johnson)
In his play Every Man in His Humor, Ben
Johnson brings a comedy of humors. An
overpowering suspicion of, and obsession
with, his wife – that she might be unfaithful
to him – controls Kitely. Then a country gull
determines every decision of George
Downright in order to understand the
manners of the city gallant. Kno’well worried
for moral development of his son, tries to
spy on him.
10. Comedy of Manners
This form of dramatic genre deals with intrigues and
relations of ladies and gentlemen living in a
sophisticated society. This form relies upon high
comedy, derived from sparkle and wit of dialogues,
violations of social traditions, and good manners, by
nonsense characters like jealous husbands, wives,
and foppish dandies. We find its use in Restoration
dramatists, particularly in the works of Wycherley
and Congreve.
11.
12. Tragicomedy
This dramatic genre contains both tragic
and comedic elements. It blends both
elements to lighten the overall mood of
the play. Often, tragicomedy is a serious
play that ends happily.
13.
14. All’s Well that Ends Well (By William
Shakespeare)
Shakespeare’s play, All’s Well that Ends Well,
perfectly sums up tragic and comic elements.
This tragicomedy play shows antics of low-born
but devoted Helena, who attempts to win the
love of her lover, Bertram. She finally succeeds
in marrying him, though she decides not to
accept him until she wears the family ring of her
husband and bears him a child. She employs a
great deal of trickery by disguising herself as
Bertram’s other, and fakes her death. Bertram
discovers her treachery at the end but realizes
Helena did all that for him and expresses his love
for her.
15.
16. Tragedy
• Tragic plays normally focus on
misfortunes surrounding a hero,
usually the protagonist, and often a
flawed one.
• Tragedies typically include serious
subject matter or themes, and
sometimes end in the downfall or
death of one or more characters.
17. Types of Tragedy
1)Greek Tragedy
2)Roman Tragedy
3)Elizabethan and
Jacobean Tragedy
4)Revenge Tragedy
5)Tragicomedy
6)Domestic Tragedy
18. Greek Tragedy
Ancient Greek tragedies typically
consisted of a protagonist of high
rank who makes an error of
judgment and accepts his fall from
grace.
Other important elements include
Gods, mythology, conflict, suffering
and catharsis.
The great Greek tragedians were
Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus.
Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex is
often considered the perfect tragedy.
19. Roman Tragedy
While many Greek tragedies were still
being performed during Roman times,
few genuine Roman tragedies
survive.
Those that have survived are mostly
adaptations of Greek tragedies.
Nine plays written by Roman
philosopher Seneca survive today,
some of which are considered
revenge tragedies, adopted by
Elizabethan and Jacobean
playwrights in the late 16th and early
17th centuries.
20. Elizabethan and Jacobean
Tragedy
Elizabethan tragedies (not all
written by William Shakespeare)
often include protagonists of high
status (nobility, military rank, etc.)
Who are flawed, encounter a
reversal of fortune and (usually)
die at play’s end.
Jacobean tragedies are mostly
characterized as being revenge
tragedies (see below).
21. Revenge Tragedy
Revenge tragedies are dramatic works in
which one character seeks revenge upon
another character for an evil doing.
Most often associated with the Jacobean
era, these revenge tragedies were actually a
revival from Roman times.
Excellent examples of revenge tragedies
include William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.
22. Tragicomedy
o A mixture of tragic and comic
elements existing in a single
dramatic work.
o Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play
Waiting for God to is a fine example
of the form, where the comic
elements are not necessarily
noticeable at first glance.
23. Domestic Tragedy
These dramas originated in the Elizabethan
period, but broke from previously
established conventions, instead portraying
the common man in a domestic setting as
the tragic hero.
Excellent examples include Henrik Ibsen’s
A Doll’s House and Eugene O’Neill’s The
Iceman Cometh.ors expose foibles and
follies of individuals and society by using
comic elements.