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Tragicomedy (Hardcover)
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Tragicomedy (Hardcover)
Series: Forms of Drama
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This succinct authoritative book offers readers an overview of the
origins, characteristics, and changing status of tragicomedy from
the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of
the key English and Irish playwrights associated with the form, the
influence of Italian and Spanish theorist-playwrights and the
importance of translations of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid. At the
turn of the 17th century, English dramatists such as John Marston,
John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare began experimenting with
plays that mixed elements of tragedy and comedy, producing a
blended mode that they themselves called 'tragicomedy'. This book
begins by examining the sources of their inspiration and the
theatrical achievement that they hoped to gain by confronting an
audience with plays that defied the plot and character expectations
of 'pure' comedy and tragedy. It goes on to show how, reacting to
French models, John Dryden, Shakespeare 'improvers' and other
English playwrights developed the form while sowing the seeds of
its own vulnerability to parody and obsolescence in the eighteenth
century. Discussing nineteenth-century melodrama as in some
respects a resurrection of tragicomedy, the final chapter
concentrates on plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, and Beckett as examples of
the form being revived to create theatrical modes that more
adequately represent the perceived complexity of experience.
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