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  1. What Is Genre?
  2. Tragedy
    1. Conditions for tragedy: Theater and Society
    2. Traditional Tragedy
      1. Tragic Heroes and Heroines
      2. Tragic Irretrievability
      3. Acceptance of Responsibility
      4. Tragic Verse
      5. The Effect of Tragedy
    3. Modern Tragedy
  3. Comedy
    1. Characteristics of Comedy
      1. Suspension of Natural Laws
      2. Contrast Between Individuals and the Social Order
      3. The Comic Premise
    2. Forms of comedy
      1. Farce
      2. Burlesque
      3. Satire
      4. Domestic Comedy
      5. Comedy of Manners
      6. Comedy of Ideas
  4. Heroic Drama
  5. Melodrama
  6. Domestic or Bourgeois Drama
  7. Tragicomedy
    1. Shakespearean Tragicomedy
    2. Modern Tragicomedy
  8. Summary





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