DRAMA / Type / Tragicomedy

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English drama has evolved throughout more than a thousand years to display the spiritual and cultural and social transformations of society. The medieval church served as the origin of English drama because its liturgical performances evolved into three distinct play types known as Mystery, Miracle and Morality plays. The initial dramatic works united religious teachings with entertainment value which transitioned f…

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Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of both the tragedy and the comedy in the audience, the former being a genre based o…

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Contains 44 works: PLAYS (37) All's well that ends well Antony and Cleopatra As you like it Comedy of errors Coriolanus Cymbeline [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet) Julius Caesar King Henry IV. Part 1 King Henry IV. Part 2 King Henry V King Henry VI. Part 1 King Henry VI. Part 2 King Henry VI. Part 3 King Henry VIII King John King Lear King Richard II King Richard III L…