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This discussion delves into the complex relationship between comedy, tragedy, and romance, exploring the distinctions and intersections among these genres. We examine key themes such as honour versus duty, social conflict versus individual desire, and the reconciliation of mundane and mystical experiences. Highlighting major playwrights and actors, we analyze various forms overlapping in genres like tragi-comedy, offering hermeneutic insights into how these narrative forms shape understanding of human experience and emotion.

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  1. UNI-VERSE A brief discussion of genre: Comedy Tragedy Romance

  2. FUZZY CATEGORIES The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. (Hamlet, 2.2.391-4)

  3. TRAGEDY: Division and Displacement • Conflict between • Honour and Duty • Surface and Substance • Social world and individual desire • Nature and nature • Providence and will

  4. TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

  5. COMEDY: DELIGHT “…for delight we scarcely do, but in things that have a conveniency to ourselves, or to the general nature; laughter almost ever comes of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Delight hath a joy in it, either permanent or present.” (Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry)

  6. COMEDY: Decorum: Celestial Spheres

  7. COMEDY: RECONCILIATION

  8. ROMANCE • Er… no.

  9. ROMANCE: Heightened Reality • Magical forces • Moral allegory • Court intrigue • Mistaken identity Interimplication of the mundane and the mystical • Mutual influence • Resolution of mundane problems by supernatural means

  10. Tragedy, Comedy, Romance and “Reading” • HERMENEUTICS: a mode of inquiry based on a metaphor of DIS-COVERY or exposure of an interior truth. • Assumes that • A truth exists • a stable reality • mis-reading can be corrected by proper application of skill OR inspiration

  11. TRAGEDY Faulty or indeterminate hermeneutics Opacity or confusion of signs POLYSEMY COMEDY Functional hermeneutics Transparency of signs Unified meaning Tragedy, Comedy: Hermeneutics

  12. Romance/Tragi-comedy • Corrective hermeneutics • Magic/supernatural perspective “corrects” human error • Allegorical model harmonizes nature and Nature

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