An Ancient Greek example could be Oedipus the King who was abandoned by his mother, adopted by a king, and gets married (accidentally) to his mother, who abandoned him also.
•
Renaissance tragedy revived the classical Greek tragedy fusing Elizabethan drama and storyline complexities with a more morbid ending (in which the protagonist usually dies, compared to Greek tragedy in which they live).
Renaissance | Renaissance music | Harlem Renaissance | Renaissance architecture | Italian Renaissance | Greek tragedy | tragedy | Tragedy | renaissance | Renaissance (band) | French Renaissance | English Renaissance theatre | English Renaissance | Renaissance (film) | Renaissance fair | Theatre of Tragedy | Revengers Tragedy | French Renaissance architecture | An American Tragedy | American Renaissance | Towers of Chevron Renaissance | Théâtre de la Renaissance | Scottish Renaissance | Renaissance Technologies | Renaissance Learning | Renaissance in Poland | Renaissance College, Hong Kong | Renaissance College | Northern Renaissance | Bristol Renaissance Faire |