Christopher Marlowe’s play, its genre an English tragedy of the sixteenth century, presents the tragic conflict of the Faustus theme in the tradition of medieval morality plays. There are two kind of conflict in the play: one between rival views of nature of evil and the other between the choice of good and the choice […]
Category: Drama
The Caretaker Comedy of Menace
Comedy of Menace Absurdism: doctrine that we live in an irrational universe The term “comedy of menace” comes from the subtitle of one of David Campton’s plays, The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace. A reviewer picked up on it and used it when writing about certain playwrights. Comedy A ‘comedy’ is a humorous play […]