Elizabethan tragedy refers to the tragic plays that took place in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 to 1603 and forty years afterword.



Elements of the tragedies:

-written in five acts and both prose and verse.
-written in iambic pentameter.
-could not contain the use of religious and political content.
-focuses on characters from royalty and nobility
- involves the struggle of the protagonist and the downfall of tragic hero or heroine
-embraces swordplay, bloody murder or ghosts.
-main character must die.



Plays:

-Romeo and Juliet, 1594
-Titus Andronicus, 1593
-Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1600
-Othello, Moor of Venice, 1604
-King Lear, 1605
-Tamburlaine
-Jeronymo
-Macbeth, 1606
-A Yorkshire tragedy
-Arden of Faversham
-The Spanish tragedy, 1592

Tragic playwrites:

-William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
-Francis Beaumont, 1584-1616
-John Fletcher, 1579-1625
-Thomas Middleton, 1580-1627
-Thomas Kyd, 1558-1594