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Characteristics of Shakespearean Tragedy… A tragedy is a drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character, called the tragic hero. The plot builds to a catastrophe, or a disastrous final outcome, that usually involves the death of the hero and many others. Tra...
What is a Shakespearean tragicomedy? Shakespeare never explicitly regarded his own plays as tragicomedies. However, modern scholars consider many of his "problem plays"--plays that historically fit neither in the genre of comedy nor the genre of tragedy--to be tragicomedies. Shakespeare's tragi...
They often begin from the point of familiarity for the audience, such as Estragon and Vladimir's evocation of the classic vaudevillian double-act in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot or the use of the preestablished Shakespearean characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's ...
The Shakespearean Sonnet The most well-known and important sonnets in the English language were written by Shakespeare. These sonnets cover such themes as love, jealousy, beauty, infidelity, the passage of time, and death. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man while the last 28 ...