Poetics
$26.58
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1999
Summary
Part of the Nick Hern Books Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre.
One of the most influential tracts in world theatre, Aristotle’s Poetics is crucial to an understanding of how drama works, and how it has evolved.
It is the source of the doctrine of the Three Unities – of Time, Place and Action – and the concept of catharsis in tragedy.
Writing only a hundred years after Sophocles…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781854593337 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1854593331 |
| Author: | Aristotle, Kenneth McLeish |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1999 |
| Weight: | 78g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Dramatic Contexts |
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Aristotle
Aristotle (born 384 BC) was a philosopher, pupil of Plato and author of numerous works including his Poetics, one of the most influential tracts in world theatre.Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.
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