Jerusalem key theories and concepts

Comedy genre

• Green world

• Lord of Misrule

• Inversion and subversion

Tradegy genre

• Plot built around a downturn in the protagonist’s fortune often triggered by a tragic flaw or error of judgement

• Action seems to unfold with a horribles inevitability

• Unhappy endings

Pastoral genre

• Rural setting

• Nostalgia for a spiritually fulfilling and innocently simple life lived in harmony with nature

• Idealised promotion of a peaceful existence away from the corruptions and meterilims of city life

Unequally encounters

• Powerful participant vs less

Grice’s maxims

Quantity, manner, relevance, quality