...the form of narration, but through pity and fear effecting the purgation of suchlike passions." Г do not wish to attack this definition other than by...employs the form of action, presents a disastrous dénouement, and is expressed in impressive metrical language. Though Aristotle adds harmony and song,...

...parts, and not in the form of narration, but through pity and fear effecting the purgation of suchlike passions." I do not wish to attack this definition other than by adding my own: A tragedy is_the ¡nutation of the adversity of a ajsiingulsned man; iï employs the form ol action, presents...

...parts, and not in the form of narration, but through pity and fear effecting the purgation of suchlike passions." I do not wish to attack this definition...language. Though Aristotle adds harmony and song, they ire not, as the philosophers say, of the essence of tragedy; its one and only - - • nt iai is acting....

...incests, conflagrations, battles, the putting out of eyes, weeping, bewailing, eulogies and dirges. ... A tragedy is the imitation of the adversity of a distinguished man." On the surface this is true of Greek tragedy, and it is profoundly true of the Italian tragedy of the...