The tragic emotions

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The philosopher Aristotle felt tragedy should elicit feelings of triumph as well as the fear and pity that are traditionally ascribed to him. The playwright Aristophanes wanted audiences to feel confident and wrote comedies, similar to Aeschylus' desire to stimulate high spirits with his tragedy. Aristotle felt the best plays evoked pity, but the ancient Greeks saw tragedy as more complex than that.

Greek drama, Emotions, Fear, Sympathy, Aristotle

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Drama and ritual once again: notes toward a revival of tragic theory

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's opinion that the origin of tragedy can be traced to Dionysian ritual cannot be corroborated by historical evidence. There are points of comparison between tragedy and rituals such as conflict, action, insight, and effect. These similarities indicate a common origin but there are dissimilarities too which implies that drama is intrinsically different from ritual.

Research, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Origin, Drama, Plays, Tragedies (Drama), Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Greek literature

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Body and ritual in Farquhar

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George Farquhar, an 18th-century Irish dramatist, used bodies in his plays as a form of currency and as metaphors for social conditions. Selling, beating, throwing and bartering with bodies become ways to portray how society devalues the individual. Bodies also enacted the social rituals that imposed uniformity on individual desire, depriving the rituals of lasting mystery and power.

Analysis, Body, Human, Human body, Rituals, Irish writers, English drama, Farquhar, George, Ritual in literature

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