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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] Aristotle distinguishes plot from praxis – which are the actions the plots represent. [4 ...

  4. Classical unities - Wikipedia

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    The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities represent a prescriptive theory of dramatic tragedy that was introduced in Italy in the 16th century and was influential for three centuries. The three unities are: unity of action: a tragedy should have one principal action.

  5. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    Many scholars have analyzed dramatic structure, beginning with Aristotle in his Poetics (c. 335 BCE). In his Poetics, a theory about tragedies, the Greek philosopher Aristotle put forth the idea the play should imitate a single whole action and does not skip around (such as flashbacks). "A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

  6. ‘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 ...

  7. Poetics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    The table of contents page of the Poetics found in Modern Library's Basic Works of Aristotle (2001) identifies five basic parts within it. [12] Preliminary discourse on tragedy, epic poetry, and comedy, as the chief forms of imitative poetry. Definition of a tragedy, and the rules for its construction. Definition and analysis into qualitative ...

  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. 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.