The Poetics of Aristotle
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- First published
- 4th century BCE (original work)
- Pages
- 35Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes2 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
Aristotle asks what makes a tragedy hold together. He treats plot as an arrangement of actions and asks how recognition, reversal and suffering can arise from what the characters do.
The treatise becomes easier to follow beside a play. Take his distinction between an incident that merely follows another and an incident that happens because of it, then try it on a familiar plot.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- theory of storytelling
- close analysis of drama
- classical criticism
Things You May Not Know About The Poetics of Aristotle
- Aristotle repeatedly returns to Oedipus as an example.
- The surviving text gives much more space to tragedy than to comedy.
About this edition
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