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Types of Drama / Plays: Tragedy Resource: Wilson/Goldfarb, Chapter 7 The Six Elements of a Tragedy / Play present in all plays, but some standard forms can be discerned. Verisimilitude -- the "illusion of truth" -- the method of achieving it changes. Form: the shape given to something so it may serve a useful purpose. For our purposes: form / genre / types are intended to be categories that are not firm--there are endless sub-categories, and many plays will fit into a number of different categories simultaneously. It can become dangerous to evaluate a play as one form, when it might not indeed fit that form. Genre--(135) -- French for "category" or "type" -- sharing a particular point of view/ forming a group. Genre criticism --can show how a play does or does not fit into a particularly category, but can also be useful as a way of examining the plays and discovering more about them -- as a learning tool. Such categories as "dramedy," "tragic farce," etc. have been used to show the merging of "types." Shakespeare's Polonius in Hamlet ridiculed categorical obsessions: "tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastorical-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral." (Act II, scene ii). Tragedy (136-142) Aristotle's definition of Tragedy (See My web page HERE or HERE [these require RealPlayer, and you MAY have to click on the image and / or the "play" button to see the image and hear the sound] ), and Poetics web page) Characteristics of "Action" -- (Brockett on Aristotle) 1. Origins ofTragedy: •	"tragos" + "oide" -- goat song usually involves a calamity (death, etc.), but attention is focused on what reactions are to that calamity by the characters and what those reactions can tell us about life. •	The "dithyramb" -- hymns sung and danced in honor of Dionysus (367, 193). •	Usually about the struggles of the "protagonist", moral issues, the effects of suffering. •	Struggle is ethical, spiritual -- protagonist's integrity is tested. •	Tragedy raises questions about the meaning of human existence, moral nature, and social / psychological relationships. •	Aristotle suggested a "certain magnitude." •	Evil often shown along with good, which does not always win. •	Some tragedies (Greek) like Oedipus, suggest that the protagonist has violated some moral order which must be vindicated and reestablished. •	Often seems inevitable and predetermined (we can look and decide for ourselves later). Magnitude: characters have high stature -- ethically superior but sufficiently imperfect modern tragedies -- more common characteristics (Willy LOMAN). High seriousness: Tries to arouse (effect) proper purgation of pity and fear -- [some have asked if the purgation is to be in the audience or in the characters??] "Catharsis" -- a purification -- the compassion accompanying shared grief -- a humanizing force-- we return to a state of equilibrium after release of tensions (366). (141) -- Contradictory reactions -- pessimistic, yet not willing to surrender individuality. a form of victory.. The Tragic Hero (protagonist) has a flaw in character or makes an error in judgment -- "tragic flaw" (140, 371) --   hamartia" -- literally "missing the mark" (368). "hubris" -- a characteristic -- overweening pride or self-confidence (368). Aristotle suggests that the best plays (Oedipus) have the hubris being too much of a good thing (what makes Oedipus strong is his self-confidence and pride) Universality -- Universal human values -- When a play touches something that is human in all of us and has lasting value through time

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Types of plays
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