Does Aristotle’s schema of the elements of tragedy have any relevance today? Comment.

Does Aristotle’s schema of the elements of tragedy have any relevance today? Comment.

The dramatic literature constitutes one of the three great literary genres, with the peculiarity of having spectacular non-literary elements.

1. THE ARISTOTELICAL THEORY

The Poetics of Aristotle is the first treaty of literary theory and is, above all, a study of tragedy, understood as a set that includes text and entertainment. The last reflections on the theater also consider the value of representation as a determining element of the dramatic work.

1.1. THE TRAGEDY

According to Aristotle, tragedy is an imitation of an effort and complete action, of certain amplitude, in seasoned language, separated each of the species [of dressings] in the different parts, acting the characters and not by story, and that through compassion and fear carries out the purgation of such affections. Thus, the tragedy differs from other genres:

-by the means of imitation: seasoned language (verse and song: “I understand by ‘seasoned language’ the one that has rhythm, harmony and song, and by ‘with the spices [of dressings] separately’, the fact that some parts they are made only by verses, and others, instead, by singing “),