LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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the death of a character.
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a fallen household.
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a husband and wife.
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a villain.
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a wedding.
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Detailed explanation-1: -domestic tragedy, drama in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary middle-class or lower-class individuals, in contrast to classical and Neoclassical tragedy, in which the protagonists are of kingly or aristocratic rank and their downfall is an affair of state as well as a personal matter.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Catherine Richardson, domestic tragedies frequently take up the themes ranging from a vengeful or adulterous spouse, a traitorous servant, and other such instances of discord within the minor gentry to explore what happens when loyalty on a smaller scale disintegrates.
Detailed explanation-3: -First, there is the complex tragedy, made up of peripeteia and anagnorisis; second, the tragedy of suffering; third, the tragedy of character; and fourth, the tragedy of spectacle.