The merchant of venice as a tragicomedy
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The document discusses the genre of tragicomedy and analyzes William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice as an example. It notes that tragicomedy contains both tragic and comic elements, and defines The Merchant of Venice as a tragicomedy because it has aspects of both tragedy and comedy throughout the story. Specifically, the play has a happy ending where main characters find love and wealth, but also contains serious and potentially tragic themes around Shylock's bond for a pound of flesh.
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Anti-Sentimental comedy arose in the 18th century as a reaction against Sentimental comedy. It uses wit and irony to ridicule emotions and sentiments, instead evoking laughter from audiences. Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan helped develop the form. Sheridan's play "The Rivals" is an example of an Anti-Sentimental comedy, using cynicism rather than emotions to deliver its message through amusing intrigues and portrayals of sophisticated society.
Comedy (1).pptx
A presentation on Comedy.
Comedy is literary a type of dramatic work that is amusing, most have cheerful ending. It lives by the laughter of the audience, but it may become literature by some grace of form that carries the laughter from one generation to another.
Aristotle explained – Comedy is a concern with events and persons of less importance, and appealing to the sense of ludicrous
Forms of Drama
This document summarizes different forms of drama including tragedy, traditional tragedy, modern tragedy, tragicomedy, melodrama, and musicals. Tragedies focus on human suffering and downfall, with traditional tragedies featuring extraordinary heroes facing tragic circumstances. Modern tragedies symbolize important societal issues. Tragicomedies have both tragic and comic elements with a happy ending. Melodramas exaggerate emotions to appeal to audiences. Musicals combine songs, dialogue, dance and more to communicate their story. Examples of each form are also provided.
Creative writing
This document provides an overview of different play genres and theatrical terms:
- Comedies are designed to be humorous and use elements like wit, unusual characters, and mistaken identities. Common genres include farces, satires, and restoration comedies.
- Tragedies have darker themes like death and contain a tragic flaw that leads to the protagonist's downfall.
- Other genres include historical plays, musical theatre, theatre of cruelty, and theatre of the absurd.
- The document also defines key terms like "play" and discusses Shakespeare's plays which fall into categories of tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances.
Introduction to comedy
This document provides an introduction to comedy through brief quotes from comedians and writers throughout history. It discusses how comedy originated in Ancient Greece through drunken revelry and slapstick performances by actors dressed as satyrs. The document also presents a timeline of how comedy has evolved from its origins to different genres today, including satire, social comedy, and comedy of manners. Key elements of comedy discussed include the use of humor to entertain and critique society and politics.
The History of Drama
The document provides a history of drama beginning in ancient Greece in the 6th century BC where it was used for entertainment. Greek tragedy addressed serious human dimensions and characters often met unhappy ends due to errors. Greek comedy also originated in ancient Greece and ranged from political satire to romantic situations. Tragedies typically featured unhappy endings where forces outside a character's control defeated them, while comedies resolved situations happily. Drama then declined in the Middle Ages before religious mystery and miracle plays emerged.
Dramatic genres
This document defines and describes various dramatic genres including tragedy and comedy. It notes that tragedies usually depict the downfall of the protagonist and discusses types such as revenge tragedies and domestic tragedies. Comedies are defined as aiming to amuse audiences and usually ending happily. Types of comedies mentioned include romantic comedies, comedies of humors, satirical comedies, and farces. The document also briefly outlines other genres such as tragicomedy, problem plays, masques, and history plays. It concludes with a reminder to students to study for an upcoming quiz on these genres.
Types of drama
There are six main types of drama: comedy, tragedy, melodrama, farce, fantasy, and opera. Each type has a distinct purpose and characteristics. Comedies are lighthearted and aim to entertain audiences through humor, while tragedies deal with serious issues and themes and typically have unhappy endings. Melodramas emphasize good vs evil and feature exaggerated characters and plots. The goal of farces is purely entertainment through ridiculous situations, while fantasies involve imaginary elements like magic. Opera combines drama, music, and singing.
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The merchant of venice as a tragicomedy
- 1. BY: student of FYBA ssp William shakespeare
- 2. Tragicomedy is half tragedy and half comedy mingled together. It is distinct from tragedy that contains comic relief and from comedy that has tragic background. Tragicomedy means a play containing a number of tragic elements and a number of comic elements. According to the scholars , the serious elements of tragedy indicates that shakespeare had actually wanted to write a tragic play but than he changed his mind in the course of his writing the play.
- 3. “the merchant of venice” is written by william shakespeare in probably 1596 or 1598. It is considered as one of the most popular tragicomedy.
- 5. The merchant of venice is undoubtedly a comedy. The play is classed as one of the 16 comedy plays . A comedy is a drama or literary work , that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and it usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
- 6. A tragedy is a drama or literary work in which the protagonist is brought to ruin or suffers sorrow. especially as a consequence of tragic flaw or moral weakness.
- 7. A tragicomedy is a fictional work that blends aspects of the genres tragedy and comedy. In shakespeare’s time a tragicomedy referred to a serious play with a happy ending or enough jokes through the play to lighten the mood. The merchant of venice by william shakespeare a tragicomedy as both tragedy and comedy can be seen throughout the play.
- 8. Comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter,or in its simplest form comedy is a story with a happy ending. Looking at the merchant of venice, through the above definitions we find that it can be classified as both a tragedy and comedy.
- 9. In many ways, the play has a happy ending : bassanio ends up with potia, and antonio not only escapes his gruesome fate,in fact he is still rich. By all accounts, that’s classic comedic ending: guy gets the girl, nobody is poor and everyone’s having good time.
- 10. The bond it self is potentially tragic. The clause about the pound of flesh is certainly with dangerous possiblities. This serious elements of the play makes critics think that the play was designed tragically by the author.