Is Tragedy the “Imitation of a <i>Serious</i> Action”?
Abstract
In Aristotle’s definition of tragedy as distinct from comedy, σπουδαῖος as elsewhere in the Poetics should apply to character and mean not ‘serious’ but ‘noble’: tragedy is an action that reveals the nobility of the character.
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1965-12-31
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