Series I, Chapter 10: What Kind of Thing Is It? Categories of Plays
Session1:  Tragedies and Comedies

Revenge Tragedies
De Casibus Tragedies
Domestic Tragedies
Comic Relief

Notes: The quotation from Morton Bloomfield is from a from a lecture series entitled “Medieval and Renaissance Tragedy and Notions of Tragedy” delivered at Brandeis University, Spring, 1978. The Doran quotation is from Madeleine Doran, Endeavors of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan Drama (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964), p. 148.

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