 | 1926 - 550 pages
...Aristotle's classic definition of tragedy. "Tragedy," he says in the sixth chapter of the Poetics, "is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete,...separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions." Let us first pause... | |
 | 1908 - 384 pages
...Corneille's interpretation of Aristotle's definition of Tragedy. That definition is : "Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, complete,...separate parts of the play: in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper kddapatz, or purgation, of these emotions." mental... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 pages
...Thurot. 1450 a 1. irtyvnev Si apogr. : xtQwev Ac. airiat Christ : X ARISTOTLE'S POETICS VI. 2—7 • 23 serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. By 3 'language embellished,'... | |
 | 1898 - 584 pages
...been written — a phrase in his definition of tragedy.* We quote Mr. Butcher's translation : — ' Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative, through pily and fear ejecting the proper Katharsis, or purgation of these emotions ' (Si... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle - 1898 - 454 pages
...Dramatic Poetry. CHAPTER VI THE FUNCTION OF TRAGEDY ARISTOTLE'S definition of tragedy * runs thus : — ' Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper katharsis, or purgation, of these2 emotions.'... | |
 | Aristotle - 1898 - 144 pages
...as resulting from what has been already said. Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is 2 serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. By 3 'language... | |
 | Sophocles - 1900 - 186 pages
...irtpaívovaa Tf¡V TWV roiovTwV iraQT|fMÍTwv KáQapffiv. — Aristotle, Poetic, 6. ' Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete,...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of those emotions.' — Butcher's... | |
 | John Milton - 1901 - 418 pages
...without regarding the 'purging' as complete. The fuller definition, in Butcher's translation, runs: 'Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,...separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.' Cf. Butcher's Aristotle's... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...dares to lay down rules for the poets. We see him at his best in his definition of Greek Tragedy : " Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. ' Every word of... | |
 | Sir John Edwin Sandys - 1906 - 740 pages
...time, and Tragedy has some constituent parts peculiar to itself (c. 5). Tragedy is then defined as ' an imitation of an action that is serious, complete,...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these (lit. 'such') emotions'1.... | |
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Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of... 
