GENRE STUDIES UNIT-IV Domestic Tragedy

 

Domestic Tragedy

            Domestic Tragedy, presented a protagonist from the middle or lower social ranks who suffers a commonplace or domestic disaster. A kind of tragedy in which the leading characters belong to the middle class rather than to the royal or noble ranks usually represented in tragic drama, and which the action concerns family affairs rather than public matters of state. It is written in prose form. It was popularised in 18^th Century.

 

Example:

            The London Merchant by George Lillo

            A woman killed with Kindness (1607) by Thomas Heywood

            A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) by Thomas Middleton