Tragedy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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00:02:23 1 Origin
00:02:43 2 Greek
00:05:57 3 Roman
00:09:08 4 Renaissance
00:11:28 4.1 Influence of Greek and Roman
00:11:37 4.2 Britain
00:15:51 4.3 Opera
00:17:10 5 Neo-classical
00:18:24 6 Bourgeois
00:21:07 7 Modern development
00:21:54 8 Theories
00:23:50 8.1 Aristotle
00:25:17 8.2 Hegel
00:28:50 9 Similar dramatic forms in world theatre
00:31:40 9.1 Ancient Indian drama
00:31:50 10 See also
00:33:07 11 Notes



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SUMMARY
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Tragedy (from the Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia)  is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.  While many cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilisation.  That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity—"the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes and Christians, in a common activity," as Raymond Williams puts it.From its origins in the theatre of ancient Greece 2500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as well as many fragments from other poets; through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Jean Racine, and Friedrich Schiller to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg; Samuel Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering; Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.  A long line of philosophers—which includes Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Camus, Lacan, and Deleuze—have analysed, speculated upon, and criticised the genre.In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics (335 BCE), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general (where the tragic divides against epic and lyric) or at the scale of the drama (where tragedy is opposed to comedy). In the modern era, tragedy has also been defined against drama, melodrama, the tragicomic, and epic theatre.  Drama, in the narrow sense, cuts across the traditional division between comedy and tragedy in an anti- or a-generic deterritorialisation from the mid-19th century onwards. Both Bertolt Brecht and Augusto Boal define their epic theatre projects (non-Aristotelian drama and Theatre of the Oppressed, respectively) against models of tragedy. Taxidou, however, reads epic theatre as an incorporation of tragic functions and its treatments of mourning and speculation.