HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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comedy
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fables
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drama
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tragedy
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -tragedy, branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. By extension the term may be applied to other literary works, such as the novel.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tragedy: Drama that shows the downfall of a noble hero, a generally good person of high birth who makes a tragic mistake or error in judgment.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy.
Detailed explanation-5: -hamartia, also called tragic flaw, (hamartia from Greek hamartanein, “to err”), inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero of a tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favoured by fortune.