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  2. Tragic hero - Wikipedia

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    Kullervo, a tragic hero from the Karelian and Finnish Kalevala. The influence of the Aristotelian hero extends past classical Greek literary criticism.Greek theater had a direct and profound influence on Roman theater and formed the basis of Western theater, with other tragic heroes including Macbeth in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Othello in his Othello. [4]

  3. 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]

  4. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Ramayana, Odyssey (), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", Orpheus, The Time Machine (), Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), The Third Man, The Lion King, Back to the Future, The Lion ...

  5. Peripeteia - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle says that peripeteia is the most powerful part of a plot in a tragedy along with discovery. A peripety is the change of the kind described from one state of things within the play to its opposite, and that too in the way we are saying, in the probable or necessary sequence of events.

  6. ’The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Lands Fair — Not Foul — Standing ...

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    After taking a year off from indoor screenings due to COVID-19, the New York Film Festival returned to Alice Tully Hall on Friday night with the world premiere of “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

  7. Classical unities - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle considers length or time in a distinction between the epic and tragedy: Well then, epic poetry followed in the wake of tragedy up to the point of being a (1) good-sized (2) imitation (3) in verse (4) of people who are to be taken seriously; but in its having its verse unmixed with any other and being narrative in character, there they ...

  8. On Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' a ... - AOL

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    Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Joel Coen's magisterially bleak Shakespeare adaptation. On Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' a recommendation in five ...

  9. ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: James McArdle and Saoirse ...

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    The title character of “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is unequivocal: “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it was done quickly.” Director Yaël Farber begs to differ. She takes ...