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  2. Tragic hero - Wikipedia

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    In his Poetics, Aristotle records the descriptions of the tragic hero to the playwright and strictly defines the place that the tragic hero must play and the kind of man he must be. Aristotle based his observations on previous dramas. [1] Many of the most famous instances of tragic heroes appear in Greek literature, most notably the works of ...

  3. Greek tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Tragic plots were most often based upon myths from the oral traditions of archaic epics. In tragic theatre, however, these narratives were presented by actors. The most acclaimed Greek tragedians are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. These tragedians often explored many themes of human nature, mainly as a way of connecting with the audience ...

  4. Anagnorisis - Wikipedia

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    In the Aristotelian definition of tragedy, it was the discovery of one's own identity or true character (e.g. Cordelia, Edgar, Edmund, etc. in Shakespeare's King Lear) or of someone else's identity or true nature (e.g. Lear's children, Gloucester's children) by the tragic hero. Aristotle was the first writer to discuss the uses of anagnorisis ...

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    Tragic True Story John Franks - Getty Images. People are buzzing about Angelina Jolie’s role as Maria Callas in the new Netflix biopic, ... Aristotle’s driver, Yaikinto Rossa, said that his ...

  6. Classical unities - Wikipedia

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    Trissino claimed he was following Aristotle. However, Trissino had no access to Aristotle's most significant work on the tragic form, Poetics. Trissino expanded with his own ideas on what he was able to glean from Aristotle's book, Rhetoric. In Rhetoric Aristotle considers the dramatic elements of action and time, while focusing on audience ...

  7. Thespis - Wikipedia

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    According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, he was the first human to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as himself). In other sources, he is said to have introduced the first principal actor in addition to the chorus. [ 3 ]

  8. Mythos (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Mythos [from Ancient Greek μῦθος mûthos] is the term used by Aristotle in his Poetics (c. 335 BCE) to mean an Athenian tragedy's plot as a "representation of an action" [1] or "the arrangement of the incidents" [2] that "represents the action". [3]

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    Based on a 1998 book published by acclaimed author, Tom Wolfe, you might be wondering if the six-episode series is based on fact or fiction and here's what you need to know. Is Charlie Croker real?