Questioning Genre
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about genre.
The 'Questions of Genre' essay introduces a series of topics and questions and gives examples of resources to explore. It is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Does Tragedy Teach? | Third dialogue on the nature of tragedy where they talk about whether tragic theatre teaches people… | Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
| 42 | What does Tragedy do for People? | A discussion of what the use of tragedy is, and whether the emotional experience of tragic theatre… | Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings |
| 43 | Defining Tragedy | First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy'… | Joshua Billings, Oliver Taplin |
| 44 | The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster | In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates… | Emma Smith |
| 45 | The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton | A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-… | Emma Smith |
| 46 | The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker | Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context… | Emma Smith |