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Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII), and Rhetoric. [8] The Poetics was lost to the Western world for a long time. The text was restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. [9]
Aristotle's use of the term opsis, as Marvin Carlson points out, is the "final element of tragedy," but the term "receive[d] no further consideration". [3] Aristotle discusses opsis in book 6 of the poetics, [4] but only goes as far as to suggest that "spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of ...
Aristotle distinguished six elements of a tragic drama: Spectacle, which refers to the staging, sets, lighting and costumes. [5] Thought is in reference to what the characters are thinking. [5] Diction and Melody refers to the style and setting of text or, in the case of some, the lyrics and music. [5]
Drama creates a sensory impression in its viewers during the performance. This is the main difference from both poetry and epics, which evoke imagination in the reader. [1]: 63 [3]: 202–203 Dramatic theory was already discussed in the Antiquities p.e. by Aristotle in Ancient Greek and Bharata Muni (Natyasastra) in Ancient India. Some tried to ...
The origin of the word tragedy has been a matter of discussion from ancient times. The primary source of knowledge on the question is the Poetics of Aristotle.Aristotle was able to gather first-hand documentation from theater performance in Attica, which is inaccessible to scholars today.
Aristotle taught that tragedy is composed of six elements: plot-structure, character, style, thought, spectacle, and lyric poetry. [157] The characters in a tragedy are merely a means of driving the story; and the plot, not the characters, is the chief focus of tragedy.
In the 4th century BCE, Aristotle wrote his Poetics, in which he analyzed the principle of action or praxis as the basis for tragedy. [15] He then considered elements of drama: plot (μύθος mythos), character (ἔθος ethos), thought , diction , music , and spectacle (opsis).
There are four basic theatrical genres either defined, implied, or derived by or from Aristotle: Tragedy, Comedy, Melodrama, and Drama. Any number of theatrical styles can be used to convey these forms. A good working definition of "Style" is how something is done. Theatrical styles are influenced by their time and place, artistic and other ...