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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | January 25, 1941 issue

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The author says that future students of the Spirit of the Age during the first half of the twentieth century will probably find no literary phenomenon more puzzling than the farce-melodrama. He could foresee them earnestly pointing out that while the comic relief of Elizabethan tragedy comes immediately to mind as a possible parallel, it is not really the same thing. Thus though the writer William Shakespeare and his contemporaries shocked classical taste they at least did not usually confuse the comic and the tragic, since the comic characters and the tragic ones were kept separate and people were supposed to stop laughing when the porter went off.

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MELODRAMA; DRAMA; COMEDY; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; TRAGEDY; THEATER
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