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Aristotle's Poetics
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:09:33
In the ancient classical periods, the Greek's Empire was known as most powerful and as a center of knowledge centralizing in Athens. Three main philosophers dominated that age: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Having the Poetics as a main topic for this research, I feel obliged, therefore, to give an introductory biography about its author; Aristotle.
Aristotle was born in a northern country in Greece called Stagira, ruled by the Macedonians at that time. His father,
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no hand in, and that's the Hamartia in the play. The language used in the play is very rich and enhanced from the dialogues to the chorus' songs.
Aristotle set his Poetics according to his observations, but later when his work was discovered in the Renaissance it was used as a rule book for making tragedy, even though Shakespeare defied them in every way and succeeded, nonetheless, in producing very famous and very successful plays.
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