ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare’s tragedies are often based around a main character, or several characters, who are either faced with external pressures by family or society that they struggle to solve, or, these characters bring about their own downfall due to personal flaws.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare is best known as a playwright, therefore his signature style of writing is drama. Within that categorization, he is best known for writing in iambic pentamer (sometimes blank verse, other times with specific rhyme schemes; e.g. the rhyming couplets throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

Detailed explanation-3: -Elements of Shakespeare’s Tragedies All of Shakespeare’s tragedies contain at least one more of these elements: A tragic hero. A dichotomy of good and evil. A tragic waste.