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Historically, tragedy of a high order has been created in only four periods and locales: Attica, in Greece, in the 5th century bce; England in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, from 1558 to 1625; 17th-century France; and Europe and America during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.
1 paź 2015 · This book demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite recent twists and turns of critical fashion, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795.
In the thought of Plato (c. 427–347 bce), the history of the criticism of tragedy began with speculation on the role of censorship. To Plato (in the dialogue on the Laws) the state was the noblest work of art, a representation (mimēsis) of the fairest and best life.
gain from tragedy – of psychology, ethics, freedom or immortality. The author engages critically with these and other philosophers, and concludes by suggesting answers to the questions of what it is that constitutes tragedy, and what it is that constitutes tragedy ‘in its high-est vocation’.
30 maj 1996 · The Greeks invented tragedy; and from the age of the Greeks to the present day, tragedy has been seen to be a uniquely powerful and affecting form of art. But what makes it what it is?
In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche holds that conscious art, in which symbols of truth are deliberately created, does not supersede myth but functions, rather, as its destiny and revealed essence.
23 lip 2018 · But in drama, the term ‘tragedy’ is specific, even technical, and refers to a particular type of play. Discussion of tragedy as a dramatic form must begin with the Greek scholar and philosopher, Aristotle (384–22 BCE).
