Tragedy: Fact or Fiction?

Throughout time theatre has evolved and underwent so many metamorphosis that it is almost impossible to compare and discuss Tragedy as a theatre form in one essay. I have chosen to compare 20th Century Tragedy with Elizabethan Tragedy and how they vary from each other and even where they are the same in some areas.
Renaissance drama developed in England during the reign of Elizabeth I in the latter part of the 16th century. Some academic neoclassical tragedies and comedies were being written and performed at the universities, but most Elizabethan poets tended to ignore neoclassicism or us…