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9 Cards in this Set
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Poetics
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- Aristotle 320s-360s BCE, 7 catagories
- Plot - Character - Thought - Diction - Music - Spectacle - Forms: Tragedy and Comedy |
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Hamartia (tragic flaw):
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Every main character has a flaw that leads to their demise
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Thought
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- All plays had to make an argument
- All plays should have a teaching function - Teach a lesson - How a play was able to instruct audience |
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Diction
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- Elevated language
- Shouldn't be to elevated that we are unable to understand |
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Spectacle
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- Cutting edge tech was important
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The Context
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- Italy, 17th century-spreads
- Renaissance: a "return" to classical ideals |
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The rules
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- Truth to universal
- To teach and to please - Verisimilitude: appearance of truth (Reality, universality, morality) - Form - 3 unities-rules of plot - Decorum: unity of character |
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Form
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1. Tragedy/comedy: strict separation
2. Tragedy: Upper class characters, Poetic, Ends tragically normally 3. Comedy: Lower class characters doing immoral things (didn't know better), Everyday speech, Ends happily |
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3 unities-rules for the plot
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- Times: not a long period of time elapsed
- Action: no subplots - Place: normally took place in one area to make believable |
