On searching for the same query on the internet, I found multiple articles that called Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy and Melodrama as the major forms but, there were an equal number of articles that called out many other genre names and sometimes with no inclusion of one of the four. So my first g...

The meaning of "obscure" in the title of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Oscure has been discussed previously on this site, but what about the name Jude? Earlier versions of the manuscript had the main character's name as Jack, a much more common English name. Jude could be short for Judas, perhaps, and ...