Concept
Tragedy
Overview
form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences
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The new un-Dionysian spirit, however, manifests itself most clearly in the _dénouements_ of the new dramas. In the Old Tragedy one could feel at the close the metaphysical comfort, without which the delight in tragedy cannot be explained at all; the conciliating tones from another world sound purest, perhaps, in the Œdipus at Colonus. Now that the genius of music has fled from tragedy, tragedy is, strictly speaking…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
Names Tragedy several times; states what Tragedy is.
This, then, is a second point of difference; though at first the same freedom was admitted in Tragedy as in Epic poetry. Of their constituent parts some are common to both, some peculiar to Tragedy, whoever, therefore, knows what is good or bad Tragedy, knows also about Epic poetry. All the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy, but the elements of a Tragedy are not all found in the Epic poem.
Aristotle, The Poetics of Aristotle
Names Tragedy several times; states what Tragedy is.
This last kind of tragedy is also the most difficult of achievement; for the greatest effect has to be produced in it with the least use of means and causes of movement, merely through the position and distribution of the characters; therefore even in many of the best tragedies this difficulty is evaded. Yet one tragedy may be referred to as a perfect model of this kind, a tragedy which in other respects is far…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
Names Tragedy several times; states what Tragedy is.
Philosophers who discussed Tragedy
Related ideas
- Aristophanes
- Ritual
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fear
- Classical Greece
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Pity
- Classical Athens
- Hamlet
- Philosophy
- Ancient Greek
- Jacques Lacan
- Athenaeus
- Livy
- Latin literature
- Neoclassicism
- Modernity
- Stoicism
- Modernism
- Aeschylus
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Augustine of Hippo
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.