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    Dramatic Genres: Types of Tragedy

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    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

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    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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    Brief Powerpoint on types of tragedy within drama. Useful diagram on structural elements.

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    Types of Tragedy

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    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

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    Elizabeth Chambers
    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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