In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, traged

Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral free

An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.

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We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know a