Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BCE[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3]
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry).
Aristotle's Poetics c. 335 BCE is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory
:-“Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.” was a lampoon by John Dryden against the poet laureate Thomas Shadwell who superseded him in 1669.
Mac means ‘son of’. So, MacFlecknoe means ‘Son of Flecknoe’, while the word ‘True-Blew’ means an extreme ‘Whig Blue’ which was the colour of the Tories.
Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – 1678) was an English dramatist and poet. His works were praised by some critics and derided by others. Why John Dryden used his name to ridicule and satirize Thomas Shadwell, his contemporary and one time friend who later became an enemy, is not clear. Flecknoe was a minor poet having religious inclinations and most of his writings were private writings. So, Dryden calling him ‘the monarch of absolute nonsense’ was similar to Iago’s ‘motive hunting of a motiveless malignity’. Thomas Shadwell was called the ‘son and successor’ of Flecknoe’.
Supernatural element in the Rape of the lock , 1. The women who are quarrelsome after their death, their soul goes to fire and such women become Salamander.
2. Those women who are polite submissive, after their death their soul returns to water and they become Nymphs.
3. Those women who are proud, serious minded, their soul go to Earth and they become Gnome.
4. Those women who are flirt and coquette, after their death, their soul go to air and they become Sylphs.
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BCE[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3]
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry).
Aristotle's Poetics c. 335 BCE is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory
:-“Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.” was a lampoon by John Dryden against the poet laureate Thomas Shadwell who superseded him in 1669.
Mac means ‘son of’. So, MacFlecknoe means ‘Son of Flecknoe’, while the word ‘True-Blew’ means an extreme ‘Whig Blue’ which was the colour of the Tories.
Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – 1678) was an English dramatist and poet. His works were praised by some critics and derided by others. Why John Dryden used his name to ridicule and satirize Thomas Shadwell, his contemporary and one time friend who later became an enemy, is not clear. Flecknoe was a minor poet having religious inclinations and most of his writings were private writings. So, Dryden calling him ‘the monarch of absolute nonsense’ was similar to Iago’s ‘motive hunting of a motiveless malignity’. Thomas Shadwell was called the ‘son and successor’ of Flecknoe’.
Supernatural element in the Rape of the lock , 1. The women who are quarrelsome after their death, their soul goes to fire and such women become Salamander.
2. Those women who are polite submissive, after their death their soul returns to water and they become Nymphs.
3. Those women who are proud, serious minded, their soul go to Earth and they become Gnome.
4. Those women who are flirt and coquette, after their death, their soul go to air and they become Sylphs.
In the history of English literature, William Shakespeare is remarked as the giant of the Renaissance and history of the world dramas. The greatest dramatist Shakespeare was really better at portraying the female characters than the other dramatists in that period. When creating Hamlet, Shakespeare indeed tried his best to reflect the life truly, but the period when he lived in and the personal sexual identity creates under the influence of that period decided his view of male power. It is just the times in which females were realized narrowly and the fact that Shakespeare was a masculine gender that the female images in Hamlet suffered a lot, and they have been represented as one kind of slaves in the history since they did not have any choice to do for their own shake. In the play Hamlet Gertrude and Ophelia are the two significant women characters in which the attitude of the dramatist explores. The central female character Gertrude married Claudius (murderer) second time after only two months later of king‟s death, she cannot win the heart of his first husband King Hamlet as well as the heart of second husband Claudius, even she is hated by her own son prince Hamlet. The study is a comprehensive analysis on the tragedy of Shakespeare‟s Hamlet focusing on deconstructive Feminism. The main hypothesis of the study is that women in Hamlet are represented as less important and negative labels and it has reinforced and toughened the patriarchy and patriarchal principles
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2. In the ordinary English of conversation or the newspaper a
tragedy is simply a sad or unlucky event. Too often we read
headlines like ‘Family Killed in Motorway Tragedy’. Even in
the theatre the word is carelessly used to describe any play
which has an unhappy ending or an unusual number of dead
bodies on the stage. But for the critic or student of literature
however the word has a rather different and more
specialized meaning. ‘Hamlet’ is indeed a tragedy but not
simply because it includes so many sudden and unnatural
deaths.
3. Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete
(composed of an introduction, a middle part and an ending), and
possesses magnitude; in language made pleasurable, each of its species
separated in different parts; performed by actors, not through narration;
effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions. –
Aristotle
Tragedy is a serious play or drama typically dealing with the problems of
a central character, leading to an unhappy or disastrous ending brought
on, as in ancient drama, by fate and a tragic flaw in this character, or, in
modern drama, usually by moral weakness, psychological maladjustment,
or social pressures.”
— Webster Dictionary
4. The beginning of tragedy, like the beginnings of so much of
western civilization, are to be found in ancient Greece.
During the fifth century before Christ the great Athenian
dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, wrote
tragedies of a power and beauty that has never been
equaled. Most of their plays still exist and some of them are
still performed in the modern theatres. ‘The Trojan Women’
of Euripides, ‘The King Oedipus’ of Sophocles.
Now, let’s know about the chief points of classical tragedy.
5. 1) Stories already well known
to the audience : the
dramatist was not expected
to invent new characters or
plots, but to use the old
stories of gods and kings and
heroes.
2)A strong religious element:
the great drama festivals in
Athens were held in honour
of the wine-god, Dionysus.
Even when people no longer
believed in the old gods as
actual persons,
6. They felt that the world was controlled by moral law and the men
who broke that law would be punished by divine justice and fate.
This feeling or belief lies behind all the great classical tragedies.
3) A dislike of horror and violence on the stage: the subjects of
tragedy were often shocking and terrible, but the evil deeds were
done off the stage. The audience learned of them from the chorus
or from ‘messengers’
4) Few actors: the earlier plays had only two actors and a chorus.
In the great days of Athenian tragedy however there were four,
five or even six chief actors, and a chorus of fifty men. No plays
had anything like the number of actors found for example in a
Shakespeare play.
5) Characters above the level of ordinary men: all the chief figures
7. In a tragedy were kings, queens, princes, princesses or heroes.
6) No mixing of tragedy and comedy: a Greek tragedy had ‘unity
of action’ that is to say it had one story and only one.
Thus, these are the chief points which clarify the
idea of classical tragedy in our mind. Now let’s know about
the Shakespearean tragedy and the chief points related it.
8. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is such an important figure
in world history. He had three things however which
everyone would agree about: an almost unbelievable
understanding of human psychology, a God- like love and
compassion for the world and a richness and control of
language such as no other English writer has had. He was a
successful dramatist. Of the thirty-six plays which were
written by Shakespeare.
A Shakespearean tragedy is a specific type of tragedy (a
written work with a sad ending where the hero either dies or
ends up mentally, emotionally, or spiritually devastated
beyond recovery) that also includes all of the additional
elements discussed in this article.
9. A tragic hero is one of the most significant elements of a Shakespearean
tragedy. This type of tragedy is essentially a one-man show. It is a story
about one, or sometimes two, characters. The hero may be either male
or female and he or she must suffer because of some flaw of character,
because of inevitable fate, or both. The hero must be the most tragic
personality in the play. According to Andrew Cecil Bradley, a noted 20th
century Shakespeare scholar, a Shakespearean tragedy “is essentially a
tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.”An important feature
of the tragic hero is that he or she is a towering personality in his/her
state/kingdom/country. This person hails from the elite stratum of
society and holds a high position, often one of royalty. Tragic heroes are
kings, princes, or military generals, who are very important to their
subjects. Take Hamlet, prince of Denmark; he is intellectual, highly
educated, sociable, charming, and of a philosophic bent.
10. Shakespearean tragedies play out the struggle between good
and evil. Most of them deal with the supremacy of evil and
suppression of good. In Julius Caesar, the mob is unaware of
the struggle between good and evil within King Caesar. They
are also ignorant of the furtive and sneaky motives of
Cassius. Goodness never beats evil in the tragedies of
Shakespeare.
There are many such kind of situations come in
his tragedies that there are good vs. evil. It may be happened
in characters, thoughts like in ‘Othello’ there are two
characters- Othello and Iago.
11. Hamartia is the Greek word for “sin” or “error”, which derives
from the verb hamatanein, meaning “to err” or “to miss the
mark”. In other words, hamartia refers to the hero's tragic
flaw. It is another absolutely critical element of a
Shakespearean tragedy. Every hero falls due to some flaw in
his or her character. A good example of hamartia can be seen
in Hamlet when Hamlet's faltering judgment and failure to
act lead him to his untimely death. He suffers from
procrastination. He finds a number of opportunities to kill his
uncle, but he fails because of his indecisive and
procrastinating nature. Every time, he delays taking action. In
one case he finds an opportunity to kill Claudius while
Claudius is praying. Still, Hamlet forgoes the excellent
opportunity to achieve his goal with the excuse that he
doesn’t want to kill a man while he is praying.
12. In Shakespearean tragedies, the hero usually dies along
with his opponent. The death of a hero is not an
ordinary death; it encompasses the loss of an
exceptionally intellectual, honest, intelligent, noble, and
virtuous person. In a tragedy, when good is destroyed
along with evil, the loss is known as a "tragic waste."
Shakespearean tragedy always includes a tragic waste of
goodness. Hamlet is a perfect example of tragic waste.
Even though Hamlet succeeds in uprooting the evil from
Denmark, he does so at the cost of his death. In this
case, the good (Hamlet) gets destroyed along with evil
(Claudius). Neither of them wins. Instead, they fail
together.
13. Conflict is another imperative element of a Shakespearean tragedy. There
are two types of conflicts: External conflict plays a vital role in the
tragedies of Shakespeare. External conflict causes internal conflict in the
mind of the tragic hero. Every tragic hero in a Shakespearean play is
confronted with external conflicts that must be addressed. Hamlet, for
example, is confronted with external conflict in the shape of his uncle,
Claudius. He has to take revenge, but as a result of his uncle's craftiness
and effective security, Hamlet isn’t able to translate his ideas into
action. Internal conflict is one of the most essential elements in a
Shakespearean tragedy. It refers to the confusion in the mind of the hero.
Internal conflict is responsible for the hero's fall, along with fate or
destiny. The tragic hero always faces a critical dilemma. Often, he cannot
make a decision, which results in his ultimate failure. Again, Hamlet is a
perfect example.
14. Supernatural elements are another key aspect of a
Shakespearean tragedy. They play an import role in
creating an atmosphere of awe, wonder, and
sometimes fear. Supernatural elements are typically
used to advance the story and drive the plot. The
ghost Hamlet sees plays an important role in stirring
up internal conflict. It is the ghost who tells Hamlet
his father was killed by his uncle Claudius and
assigns him the duty of taking revenge. Similarly, the
witches in Macbeth play a significant role in the plot.
These witches are responsible for motivating
Macbeth to resort to murder in order to ascend the
throne of Scotland.
15. Poetic Justice means good is rewarded and evil is punished; it
refers to a situation in which everything comes to a fitting
and just end. There is no poetic justice in the tragedies of
Shakespeare, rather, these plays contain only partial justice.
Shakespeare understood that poetic justice rarely occurs
outside of fiction. Good deeds often go without reward and
immoral people are often free to enjoy life to its fullest. “Do
good and have good” was considered an outdated ethos in
the time of Shakespeare, which is why we don’t find any
poetic justice in his tragedies. Good is crushed along with
evil. Hamlet dies along with Claudius.
16. Comic relief is our final key element. Shakespeare
didn’t follow in the footsteps of his classical
predecessors when writing tragedies. Greek and
Roman writers didn’t use comic relief. But
Shakespeare wanted to relieve the tension for the
reader and lighten up the mood here and there. A
few examples of comic relief scenes include the
grave digger scene in Hamlet, the drunken port
scene in Macbeth, the fool is smarter than the king
dialogue in King Lear, and the Polonius in the wings
speech in Hamlet. We also have the following scene
in Romeo and Juliet: