The Soulflakes

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Unit-II Drama “Tragi-Comedy”  A type of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama which intermingled the standard characters and subject matter and the typical plot forms of tragedy and comedy. Thus, the important agents in tragicomedy included both people of high degree and people of low degree, even though, according to the reigning critical theory of that time, only upper-class characters were appropriate to tragedy, while members of the middle and lower classes were the proper subject solely of comedy. Tragicomedy represented a serious action which threatened a tragic disaster to the protagonist, yet, by an abrupt reversal of circumstance turned out happily. As John Fletcher wrote in his preface to The Faithful Shepherdess 1610 . Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is by these criteria a tragicomedy because it mingles people of the aristocracy with lower-class characters (such as the Jewish merchant Shylock and the clown Launcelot Gobbo ), and also because of the developing threat of...