What types of drama were flourished during the Elizabethan age

The various types of drama that are flourished during the age are:

1. Chronicle play based on events from national history and witnessing to the patriotism of the people.

2. The domestic drama presenting rather crudely scenes from domestic life as in Grammar Gurton’s Needle. It developed into such plays as Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.

3. The courtly comedy intended for cultured and learned audiences and dealing with the life of the court and the courtiers. Its chief features were witty dialogues, jests and puns, rather than action. The appeal was to the intelligence and imagination of scholarly audiences.

4. The classical plays based on the drama of ancient Greece and Rome.

5. The melodrama which depended not upon plot or characterization but on sensation and thrills. There was a heaping up of sensational events.

6. The revenge tragedy full of bloody events.

7. Farces full of clown age and appealing to the lower section of the audience.