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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Tragicomedy
  name:
    name part: Hammond, Brean
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: Methuen Drama
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 182 σ. : εικ. ; 20 εκ.
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Tragicomedy's early development -- 2. The genre established : tragicomedy 1610-42 -- 3. Restoration and fall : tragicomedy restored -- 4. Modern tragicomedy.
  note: Brean Hammond.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Τραγικωμωδία
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Αγγλικό δραμα (τραγικωμωδία)
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Μελόδραμα
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  classification: 809.252 3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Forms of drama
  identifier: 9781350144309
  identifier: 9781350144316
  identifier: 9781350144330
  identifier: 9781350144323
  identifier: 2021938162
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210430
    record change date: 20240531125237.0
    record identifier: 22016861
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre