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-ExtractsA full copy, translated of Poetics, should anyone wish to look it over.
PoeticsThe 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