Different kinds of tragedy

There are four kinds of tragedy—the same number as that

of the component parts mentioned. There is the complex
kind, constituted by reversal and discovery (for example,
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plays about Ajax or Ixion); there is the morality tragedy
(for example, Women of Phthia and Peleus); finally there
is […] (e.g. Daughters of Phorcys, Prometheus, and plays
set in the underworld).*
Preferably one should try to have all four, but if not all
then the most important and as many as possible,
especially given the way people criticize poets these days.
Because in the past there have been good poets in each
genre, people expect a present-day poet to surpass each of
them in his own particular excellence.
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If we are to compare and contrast tragedies, we must do
so principally in respect of the story, that is, whether they
share the same complication and explication. Many poets
complicate well but explicate badly, but the two need to be
matched to each other.