Domestic tragedy or Bourgeois tragedy – Literary Terms:

Domestic tragedy, Bourgeois tragedy, Literary Terms, What is Domestic tragedy? What is Bourgeois tragedy?

Domestic tragedy or Bourgeois tragedy – Literary Terms:

Domestic tragedy:

A TRAGEDY of domestic life concerning a middle or lower-class PROTAGONIST who suffers a personal disaster. Also called bourgeois tragedy.

Bourgeois tragedy:

Another term for domestic tragedy; a TRAGEDY concerning a middle- or lower-class PROTAGONIST who suffers a personal disaster.

Domestic tragedy from oxford dictionary:

The domestic tragedy is sometimes known as 'bourgeois tragedy'.  It is 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 a tragic drama, and in which the action  concerns family affairs rather than public matters of state. A few English verses play from Shakespeare's time belongs to this category: the chief  examples are the anonymous Tragedy of Mr. Arden of Feversham (1592), Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) and A Yorkshire  Tragedy (1608, of uncertain authorship). The domestic tragedy was revived in  prose by George Lillo with The London Merchant (1732) and his new version  of Arden of Feversham (1759). Lillo's influence led to the appearance of  'domestic' prose dramas in Germany with G. E. Lessing's tragedy Miss  Sara Sampson (1755), and in France with Diderot's *DRAMES. A later revival  is seen in the American tragedies of Tennessee Williams and Arthur  Miller.

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TRAGEDY