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‘During the last decade of his career, Euripides began to write “tragedies” that might actually be called romantic dramas,* or tragicomedies with happy endings. These plays have a highly organised structure leading to a recognition scene in which the discovery ** of a character’s true identity produces a complete change in the situation, and in general a happy one. Extant plays in this style include “Ion”, “Iphegenia among the Taurians”, and “Helen”. Plays of the tragicomedy type seem to anticipate the New Comedy*** of the **** 4^th century BC[E].’

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***ref [[Redbook8:244][19910208:1520l]{Greek Literature [continued (12)] [Comedy [continued (4)]]}[8th February 1991],] 244 above

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#– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20: 395]

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