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Dramatic Genres: Types of Tragedy

This document discusses three types of tragedy: revenge tragedy, which focuses on a hero seeking revenge for a murdered relative; domestic tragedy, concerning plays about middle-class family life; and heroic tragedy, from the English Restoration using grand language and settings to depict a noble hero torn between love and duty.

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Dramatic Genres: Types of Tragedy

This document discusses three types of tragedy: revenge tragedy, which focuses on a hero seeking revenge for a murdered relative; domestic tragedy, concerning plays about middle-class family life; and heroic tragedy, from the English Restoration using grand language and settings to depict a noble hero torn between love and duty.

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Dramatic Genres

Types of Tragedy
Types of Tragedy
 Revenge tragedy (tragedy of blood)
 the plot is centred on the tragic hero’s attempts at
taking revenge on the murderer of a close relative; in
these plays the hero tries to ‘right a wrong’
Types of Tragedy
 Domestic tragedy
 a play typically about middle-class or lower middle-
class life, concerned with the domestic sphere
Types of Tragedy
 Heroic tragedy
 Mostly popular during the English Restoration, heroic
tragedy or tragicomedy usually used bombastic
language and exotic settings to depict a noble heroic
protagonist and their torment in choosing between
love and patriotic duties

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