Poetics by Aristotle

Oedipus Rex is an ancient Greek tragedy. It is so typical of the classical tragedies that Aristotle took it as...

Introduction Tragedy is a genre of drama that was developed in Greece around the 6th century BCE. As Aristotle defines...

In Poetics, Aristotle writes that the perform of tragedy is to arouse the feelings of “pity and fear, wherewith to...

The word tragedy brings to thoughts Aristotle and the Poetics. Some points of the definition and discussion of tragedy within...

Introduction: - Aristotle’s Poetics has usually been accused of being ‘lopsided’ in its treatment of the topic of poetry, of...

Aristotle didn't invent the term “imitation”. Plato was the first to make use of the phrase in relation with poetry,...