Identification of the Unique Features of Elizabethan Dramas:A Critical Analysis
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Thousands of plays have been written in the history of literature and will be written in the future. Therein, the Elizabethan drama itself is unique and there will be no denying it. In that, the analyzed selected dramas from the Elizabethan age are Christopher Marlowe‘s Doctor Faustus, Thomas Kyd‘s The Spanish Tragedy, and John Webster‘s The Duchess of Malfi. These three writers were sometimes called the —University Wits‖, as they have studied either at Oxford or Cambridge. The prominent playwrights of the Elizabethan period tried to write new genera of drama that were unknown to contemporary society. This research aims to analyze the unique features of these three plays as morality play, involvement of supernatural elements, tragi-comedy, Senecan revenge tragedy, Renaissance effects, uses of soliloquies, uses of irony, uses of blank verse, uses of allegory, the theme of law, order, and justice, the theme of play with-in-play, the theme of love and marriage, the theme of violence, betrayal, and murder, the theme of social discrimination, the theme of evil, etc. However, contemporary society did not know these characteristics, so the plays.
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