Poetics and Tragedy

A breakdown of the key critical text for the year.

We have worked through the slides below to give ourselves a broad overview of the genre we are studying this year. The core of this is Aristotle’s manuscript, Poetics.

Poetics-An-exploration-

The supporting material and extracts that we used with the slides above.

Poetics-Extracts

A full copy, translated of Poetics, should anyone wish to look it over.

Poetics

The next documents are from a series of resources that I discovered. They break down the genre and the idea of the tragic hero into really simple terms.

Aristotles-Ideas-about-Tragedy-2

Definition-of-Tragic-Hero-1

Posted by Renee Plunkett

Teacher of English at Mount Aspiring College, Wanaka, New Zealand.

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