2024年12月13日 · Tragedy, branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. By extension the term may be applied to other literary works, such as the novel.

2024年12月13日 · The eclipse of tragedy. Although the annals of the drama from Dryden onward are filled with plays called tragedies by their authors, the form as it has been

2024年12月13日 · Tragedy - Greek, Drama, Catharsis: The movement toward naturalism in fiction in the latter decades of the 19th century did much to purge both the novel and the drama of the sentimentality and evasiveness that had so long emasculated them.

2024年12月13日 · It is clear that tragedy, by nature exploratory, critical, independent, could not live under such a regimen. Plato is answered, in effect and perhaps intentionally, by Aristotle’s Poetics. Aristotle defends the purgative power of tragedy and, in direct contradiction to Plato, makes moral ambiguity the essence of tragedy.

2024年12月13日 · Tragedy - American Novel, Loss, Grief: In the United States, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) are surprisingly complete embodiments of the tragic form, written as they were at a time of booming American optimism, materialistic expansion, and sentimentalism in fiction—and no ...

The earliest known examples of domestic tragedy are three anonymous late Elizabethan dramas: Arden of Feversham (c. 1591), the story of the murder of Mr. Arden by his wife and her lover and their subsequent execution; A Warning for Faire Women (1599), which deals with the murder of a merchant by his wife; and A Yorkshire Tragedy (c. 1606), in ...

2025年1月25日 · Slaves were always considered a dangerous weapon of war, but they occasionally figure prominently in descriptions of political struggle within cities; for example, at Corcyra in 427 the slaves were promised freedom by both sides but went over to the democrats.

2024年12月13日 · Aristotle says that a tragic destiny is precipitated by the hero’s tragic fault, his “error or frailty” (hamartia), but Aristotle also calls this turn of events a change of “fortune.”

Satyr play, genre of ancient Greek drama that preserves the structure and characters of tragedy while adopting a happy atmosphere and a rural background. The satyr play can be considered the reversal of Attic tragedy, a kind of “joking tragedy.”

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