Tragedy and Tragic Theory: An Analytical GuideComprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present. |
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... things as they ought to be rather than as they were or are . In his isolation of thought as a com- ponent of drama , Aristotle opened the way for content evaluation . However , he provided all the parts without connecting the scene of ...
... things will work out in the end reduces the suffering to mere ritual , the festival conclusion entails a forgetting of the suffering along the way , or two sets of characters , linked only by chance , divide the stimuli for attraction ...
... things . ( 11. 922-27 ) This speech echoes an earlier comment by the chorus on Paris's seduction of Helen : " A man thought / the gods deigned not to punish mortals / who trampled down the delicacy of things / inviolable ” ( 11. 369–72 ) ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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