This document defines and provides examples of different types of drama, including tragedy, satyr plays, melodrama, and comedy. It notes that tragedy exposes human suffering and comes from the Greek word for "goat song." Examples of different kinds of tragedy given are traditional tragedy like Romeo and Juliet, modern tragedy like A Streetcar Named Desire, domestic tragedy like A Doll's House, tragicomedy like Waiting for Godot, and revenge tragedy like Hamlet. Satyr plays made fun of tragedy characters. Melodrama emphasizes action and effects. Comedy intends to make audiences laugh, and examples of types of comedy discussed include romantic comedy, comedy of humors, satirical comedy, comedy of manners,

1. TYPES OF DRAMA
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2. I. TRAGEDY
-exposes the plight and sufferings of humans to the
audience
-comes from the Greek word tragoida which means
“goat song” .
-the three great playwrights of tragedy were
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

3. KINDS OF TRAGEDY
TRADITIONAL TRAGEDY
-featuring noble characters in an irretrievable situation
that elicits their immense capacity for suffering and
promise for a better tomorrow, the vision of the play is
dark.
Example: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

4. MODERN TRAGEDY
-characters rise to the status of exceptional characters
facing a tragic web of circumstances and personal
weaknesses that spell their doom in an unsympathetic world.
Example: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
-a tragedy in which the tragic protagonists are ordinary
middle class individuals.
Example: Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

5. TRAGICOMEDY
-a mixture of tragic and comic elements existing in a
single dramatic work.
Example: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
REVENGE TRAGEDY
-dramatic works in which one character seeks revenge
upon another character from an evil doing.
Example: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

6. II. SATYR PLAYS
-short plays performed between the acts of tragedies
and made fun of the plight of the tragedies characters.
Satyr- a mythical half-human, half-goat figures, and
actors in the play who wore large phalluses for comic
effect.

7. III. MELODRAMA
-emphasizes action and spectacular effects.
-historically employed stock characters engaged in
an ambiguous struggle between good and evil with
music under the action scenes.

8. IV. COMEDY
-a humorous play in which the actors dominate the
action.
-intends to make the audience laugh.

9. Kinds of Comedy
Romantic Comedy
-a composite genre which centers mostly on the
vicissitudes of young lovers who get happily united in
the end.
Comedy of Humors
-based on the medieval and Renaissance beliefs that
people's actions are governed by their dominant
bodily humors.

10. Satirical Comedy
-main purpose is to expose the vices and
shortcomings of society and of people representing
that society.
Comedy of Manners
-depicts a stylish society, mainly the middle and
upper classes, its focus is on elegance, with characters
of fashion and rank.

11. Sentimental Comedy
-focuses on the virtues of private life, with simple
and honorable characters.
Farce
-intends to provoke simple mirth in the form of
roars of laughter.
-aims at entertaining the audience through
situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant,
and thus improbable.

12. Black Comedy
-displays cynicism and disillusionment, human
beings without hope or convictions, their lives
controlled by fate or unknown and incomprehensible
powers.