Aristotle on Comedy
Subtitle: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: March 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780715631690
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Philosophy; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Composition & Creative Writing - Play/Scriptwriting; Drama; Philosophy / General; General
First sentence: Compared with W. von Christ's Teubner text of 1878, the 1965 Oxford text of the Poetics by R. Kassel reveals a great diminution in the material presented as the fragments of the lost Book II, in which Aristotle discussed comedy.