| Posted by: David Oberman at September 5, 2005, 1:02 pm | | Topic: why does zombie movies have to be about zombies taking over? Forum: groupsrv | | Dale Houstman wrote: Quote:In Shakespearean terms when the heroes die at the end -it is called a tragedy Sometimes it's called a "history" That's genre mixture; histories in which the hero dies are also tragedies. Tragedy and comedy are the larger sets, and history a aubset of both. Histories in which the "hero" dies are not necessarily tragedies -- even in Shakespearean terms, which was the OP's statement. My Riverside Shakespeare divvies up the plays into comedies, tragedies, histories & romances. Some of the history plays have "tragedy" in the title & others don't. Harry Levin, whose Shakespearean authority the world justifiably grants, refers in his General Introduction (Riverside) to the histories as a genre: "Shakespeare first achieved & asserted his mastery through his cycle of plays in this genre." But to be fair to your argument, I'll keep quoting Levin: "The line between the histories & the tragedies need not be quite so sharply drawn as it is by the classifications of the Folio. 'Richard II' & 'Richard III' could qualify as tragedies, insofar as they are unified through the person of their weak or wicked protagonists. 'King Lear' & 'Macbeth' might almost be reckoned with the histories, since they somewhat marginally stem from the historical -- or legendary -- matter of Britain, if not of England. Shakespeare himself, it's well know, engaged abundantly in genre mixture. "The very notion that love could be tragic material was something of an innovation with Shakespeare; the subject had been conventionally viewed as the peculiar domain of comedy," Levin wrote. "Since 'Romeo & Juliet' marks a strategic turning-point in this regard, we should not be surprised that its formal & stylistic features are reminiscent of Shakespeare's early comedies, or that it is characterized in the First Quarto by the paradoxical phrase, 'conceited tragedy.' " |
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