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Literary genres - Coggle Diagram
Literary genres
Drama (plays)
Comedies
Tragedies
Histories
playwriter
Flourishing of medieval drama paved the way to Elizabethan drama
Elizabethan drama = golden age of drama
Orgins
from the church to teach teachings of Gospels and the Bible
liturgical drama started from an alternation of chants between the priest and the choir
didactic aim
little by little they would have static figures who personified the events, and would start to move and speak some lines -->
tropes (liturgical drama)
these would be performed in the
nave
of the church with special effects
The nave of the church was no longer enough. They would then be called
Miracles
(more about the lives of saints) or
Mystery
(about the Bible) plays.
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Morality plays
= the author had to invent a plot and create characters that were the representation of human life
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Prose
novels
Poetry