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'It is the generic flexibility of The Tempest that makes it such an interesting play for an audience.' Explore how The Tempest plays with genre.
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'It is the generic flexibility of The Tempest that makes it such an interesting play for an audience.' Explore how The Tempest plays with genre. The Tempest encompasses many genres. These include: Tragedy, Comedy and Romance. However overall The Tempest is most commonly known as a Tradgicomedy, which encompasses all these genres by having multiple plots within the play, which are then linked together to make the overall play. The plot suggests that the play is a tragedy by which there is a scene in which much destruction takes place and the themes of death and downfall are seen. However it could be seen as a comedy because there is a lot of disjunction, because it starts with the wrecking of the royal ship on the rock of an island. Commotion is a major part of this. While all this happens Miranda looks on from the island and comments on the...
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