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    Aristotle was the first to define tragedy in his work Poetics. He wrote that tragedy must involve the reversal of fortunes of a powerful person from good to bad, due to a character flaw. Tragedy must also create a sense of fear and pity in viewers that can lead to catharsis. More modern dramatists have expanded on tragedy involving common people to allow viewers easier relatability. The history of tragedy developed from Greek tragedies typically involving protagonists of high rank accepting their fall from grace, to Elizabethan/Jacobean tragedies often about nobility encountering reversals and dying, to 20th century theatre challenging old rules and developing new experimental forms.

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    Aristotle was the first to define tragedy in his work Poetics. He wrote that tragedy must involve the reversal of fortunes of a powerful person from good to bad, due to a character flaw. Tragedy must also create a sense of fear and pity in viewers that can lead to catharsis. More modern dramatists have expanded on tragedy involving common people to allow viewers easier relatability. The history of tragedy developed from Greek tragedies typically involving protagonists of high rank accepting their fall from grace, to Elizabethan/Jacobean tragedies often about nobility encountering reversals and dying, to 20th century theatre challenging old rules and developing new experimental forms.

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    Aristotle was the first to define tragedy in his work Poetics. He wrote that tragedy must involve the reversal of fortunes of a powerful person from good to bad, due to a character flaw. Tragedy must also create a sense of fear and pity in viewers that can lead to catharsis. More modern dramatists have expanded on tragedy involving common people to allow viewers easier relatability. The history of tragedy developed from Greek tragedies typically involving protagonists of high rank accepting their fall from grace, to Elizabethan/Jacobean tragedies often about nobility encountering reversals and dying, to 20th century theatre challenging old rules and developing new experimental forms.

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    3rd Lecture

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    Aristotle was the first to define tragedy in his work Poetics. He wrote that tragedy must involve the reversal of fortunes of a powerful person from good to bad, due to a character flaw. Tragedy must also create a sense of fear and pity in viewers that can lead to catharsis. More modern dramatists have expanded on tragedy involving common people to allow viewers easier relatability. The history of tragedy developed from Greek tragedies typically involving protagonists of high rank accepting their fall from grace, to Elizabethan/Jacobean tragedies often about nobility encountering reversals and dying, to 20th century theatre challenging old rules and developing new experimental forms.

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    Significance • The definition of tragedy has also changed over

    time; Aristotle was the first to fully define it in


    of Tragedy in his work Poetics. He wrote that tragedy must
    involve the reversal of fortunes of a powerful
    Literature person from good to bad, due to the hamartia of
    the protagonist. He also wrote that tragedy must
    create a sense of fear and pity in the viewer,
    which can then lead to catharsis.

    • More modern dramatists, such as Arthur Miller,


    have written that tragedy can also be written
    about the common person; in fact, the viewer may
    more easily relate to this type of tragedy and thus
    feel a greater sense of fear and pity.
    Development of • Greek Tragedy:
    Tragedy Ancient Greek tragedies typically consisted of
    ( the history of a protagonist of high rank who makes an error of
    tragedy) judgement and accepts his fall from grace. Other
    important elements include Gods, mythology,
    conflict, suffering and catharsis. The great Greek
    tragedians were Sophocles, Euripides and
    Aeschylus. Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex
    ( Oedipus The King) is often considered the
    perfect tragedy.
    • Elizabethan and JacobeanTragedy:
    Elizabethan tragedies (not all written by William Shakespeare) often
    include protagonists of high status (nobility, military rank, etc.) who are
    flawed, encounter a reversal of fortune and (usually) die at play’s end.
    Jacobean tragedies are mostly characterized as being revenge tragedies.
    • Twentieth-century theatre :
    • 20th century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical
    culture of the 20th century, mainly in Europe and North America. There
    was a widespread challenge to long established rules surrounding theatrical
    representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre,
    including modernism, Expressionism, Impressionism. political theatre and
    other forms of Experimental theatre, as well as the continuing development
    of already established theatrical forms like naturalism and realism. Major
    dramatists of the 20th century are George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett
    and Henrick Ibsen, and Anton Chekhov.

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