Tragedy: Serious drama in relation to Aristotle's Poetics

by F.L. Lucas

book

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Frank Laurence Lucas

Reviews

[Seph · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hugely enjoyed this!! I love tragedy and I love dissecting it, so this book was so interesting to me. I particularly loved the sections discussing catharsis, peripeteia, hamartia, and anagnorisis. These are all terms that I've been learning since secondary school, but I loved reading this book that broke them down into detail and made me realise maybe they aren't quite the simple concepts I thought they were.
Like I said, I adore tragedy, and I think that in some ways Greek Tragedy, and by extension Aristotle and his Poetics, will always be relevant to today's tragic works, simply because the entire genre stemmed from them. I liked the comparisons between authors and time periods and genres in this book, and I quite liked the tone it was written in; it was easy to follow and digest. All in all, I found this super interesting!

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This text is not so much a commentary on individual dramatic works as a close reading of Aristotle’s work on tragedy, Poetics.

Acquired Oct 22, 1987
The Word, Montreal, Quebec

[Sadbummy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the 1927 edition.