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Types of Drama: Muhammad Ashabul Kahfi Arafah (F041181312)

This document defines and provides examples of different types of drama, including tragedy, revenge tragedy, domestic tragedy, social tragedy, romantic tragedy, heroic drama, comedy of manners, comedy of humour, absurd drama, problem play, and history play. Revenge tragedies focus on revenge, domestic tragedies depict middle-class stories, and social tragedies address societal issues. Examples are drawn from playwrights like Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Beckett to illustrate each genre. The source references literature on dramatic forms from references like the Britannica and Oxford Reference.

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Types of Drama: Muhammad Ashabul Kahfi Arafah (F041181312)

This document defines and provides examples of different types of drama, including tragedy, revenge tragedy, domestic tragedy, social tragedy, romantic tragedy, heroic drama, comedy of manners, comedy of humour, absurd drama, problem play, and history play. Revenge tragedies focus on revenge, domestic tragedies depict middle-class stories, and social tragedies address societal issues. Examples are drawn from playwrights like Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Beckett to illustrate each genre. The source references literature on dramatic forms from references like the Britannica and Oxford Reference.

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Muhammad Ashabul Kahfi Arafah (F041181312)

Types Of Drama

Tragedy, branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events
encountered or caused by a heroic individual.

Revenge Tragedy

A drama that focuses on telling revenge for something, whether real or imagined. it was popular in the
Elizabethan and Jacobean era.

Example : Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (performed 1589–92), Henry Chettle's The Tragedy of


Hoffman (performed 1602), and Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (1607)

Domestic Tragedy

A drama that focuses on telling stories of middle or lower class people.

Example :  Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), Thomas Middleton’s A
Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), and The Witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker dan William Rowley (1621)

Social Tragedy

Drama that tells about problems that occur in society.

Example : The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1592)

Romantic Tragedy

The opposite of a romantic comedy, which is a romance story that ends tragically or sadly.

Example : Madame Bovary by  Gustave Flaubert (1856)


Heroic Drama

Heroic drama, also known as heroic tragedy. Heroic dramas have larger-than-life heroes and heroines,
highly rhetorical dialogue and exotic locales. Like heroic poetry or epics, it is written in heroic verses.

Example : John Dryden's The Indian Emperour (1665) and Roger Boyle's The Black Prince (1667)

Comedy of Manners

a genre of realistic, satirical comedy, questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions
of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.

Example : Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer, 1773) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The Rivals,
1775; The School for Scandal, 1777)

Comedy of Humour

is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits
two or more overriding traits or 'humours' that dominates their personality, desires and conduct.

Example : The Circus (1928) by Charlie Chaplin

Absurd Drama

Drama that has no special meaning and lacks dialogue in it. The plays focus largely on ideas of
existentialism and express what happens when human existence lacks meaning or purpose and
communication breaks down.

Example : Samuel Beckett's “Waiting for Godot” (1953), Jean-Paul Sartre's play, “No Exit” (1944), Max
Frisch's play, “The Firebugs” (1953) and Ezio D'Errico's play “The Anthill and Time of the Locusts”
(1954).

Problem Play

Type of drama that developed in the 19th century to deal with controversial social issues in a realistic
manner, to expose social ills, and to stimulate thought and discussion on the part of the audience.

Example : Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879), Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession (1902), and Galsworthy's
Justice (1910)

History Play
A history play, also known as a chronicle play, is a dramatic work where the events of the plot are either
partially or entirely drawn from history.

Example : John Skelton's Magnyfycence (1519), Christoper Marlowe's Edward II (1592),

reference source:

1. Revenge Tragedy

https://www.britannica.com/art/revenge-tragedy

2. Domestic Tragedy

https://www.britannica.com/art/domestic-tragedy

3. Social Tragedy

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304806038_What_is_a_Social_Tragedy

4. Romantic Tragedy

https://prezi.com/qqen4le6mtl1/genre-romantic-tragedy/

5. Heroic Drama

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095933819

6. Comedy of Manners

https://www.britannica.com/art/comedy-of-manners

7. Comedy of Humour

https://www.britannica.com/art/comedy-of-humours

8. Absurd Drama

https://www.britannica.com/art/Theatre-of-the-Absurd

9. Problem Play

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100347336

10. History Play

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199208272.001.0001/acref-9780199208272-
e-546

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