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What two types of drama did the Greeks make?
The two types of theater are comedy and tragedy. In general the comedy has the hero live at the end and tragedy has the hero die at the end.
What is a Modern domestic tragedy?
Meaning of Modern Tragedy: ordinary people in tragic situation.Modern Tragedy: dark scenes, dark faces, everyone is destroyed or die.Modern Tragedy: funny at the loss of humanity, laughter without substance.Modern Tragedy: everything is simplified. People are stripped down to what is essential.Modern Tragedy: must fall from the throne.Modern Tragedy: they don't have to look real, real in essence, any action is simple.Must fall from the throne.Person in high position, falls to great depth. All central characters die or are destroyed.They don't have to look real, real in essence, any action is simple.Tragedy has to go beyond Drama. Tragedyhas to bring on emotionally more than drama, it has to bring catharsis. This has got to be an enormous impact on the audience. The audience has to feel disemboweled at the end of the play. That is what tragedy has to achieve. And drama only has to move the audience.The difference between a drama and Modern Tragedy: modern tragedy is to fall from great height all central characters die, no way out of dilemma. Has to be done in stylized manner.Very stylish Modern Tragedy."In the end, it can't look like acting."
Is the play a comedy or a tragedy?
Its A tragedy because macbeth ends up dying in the end and not getting his own way
What is a tragedy and why is Romeo and Juliet one of Shakespeare's tragedies?
A tragedy is any play with a sad ending while a comedy is a play with a happy ending. Romeo and Juliet is considered a tragedy because both of the youthful, innocent lovers end up dying.
What is the difference between a comedy and a tragedy?
The biggest difference between tragedy and comedy is that comedy makes you laugh where tragedy does not. Tragedy is something bad that happens so one will feel sad and upset when they experience a tragedy.
What are shakesperes tragicomedies?
Shakespeare wrote tragedies during his whole career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, and then Romeo and Juliet. . His other tragedies include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, along with Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida.
What is it called where you show what is going to happen at the end of the play during the middle of the play - Drama?
It is called foreshadowing.
Why is Romeo and Juliet a tradgey?
Romeo and Juliet is considered a tragedy because of the untimely deaths of the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, as a result of their families' long-standing feud. The play also explores themes of fate, love, and societal expectations which contribute to the tragic outcome.
What genre is Macbeth?
Pile of dead bodies at the end and no weddings equals tragedy.
What makes Hamlet a tradegy?
In lilterature, a tragedy is a narrative, drama, or poem that depicts the death of a noble or outstanding person. Hamlet certainly fits the description, and his death by poison and treachery near the end of Act V is the catastrophe that is featured in every tragedy.
Why is it necessary for all the main players to die at the end of a play?
It isn't, because not all plays are tragedies. In a tragedy, to be sure, there is a pile of bodies at the end; that is what makes it a tragedy. But in fact only about 25% of Shakespeare's plays were tragedies, and almost half were comedies, which usually ended with all the main players getting married to each other, or families reuniting happily.
How was socrates death similar to greek tragedy?
Socrates' death was similar to a Greek tragedy because it did not end in his favor. Like many tragedies, the good guy usually dies or loses.
