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Genre and Form: Comedy, Tragedy, and Tragicomedy

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An examination of the classical origins of tragedy and comedy in Aristotle's Poetics, the emergence of tragicomedy as a distinct hybrid form, and how playwrights across periods have used and blurred these categories to shape audience expectation and dramatic meaning.

Inhaltsübersicht

  • Aristotle's Foundations: Tragedy and Comedy in the Poetics
  • The Rise of Tragicomedy as a Dramatic Form
  • Case Studies: Shakespeare's Late Romances and Chekhov's Comic Tragedies
  • Genre as a Playwriting Tool: Structural and Tonal Choices
Ancient Greek theatre masks representing comedy and tragedy
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