Aristotle - Aristotle's Poetics - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Introduced by Francis Fergusson the Poetics written in the fourth century B. C. is still an essential study of the art of drama indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used by both playwrights and theorists of many periods and interpreted in the course of its two thousand years of life in various ways. The literature which has accumulated around it is as Mr. Fergusson points out "full of disputes so erudite that the nonspecialist can only look on in respectful silence." But the Poetics itself is still with us in all its suggestiveness for the modern reader to make use of in his turn and for his own purposes. Francis Fergusson's lucid informative and entertaining Introduction will prove invaluable to anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate the Poetics. Using Sophocles Oedipus Rex as Aristotle did to illustrate his analysis Mr. Fergusson pints out that Aristotle did not lay down strict rules as is often thought: " The Poetics " he says "is much more like a cookbook than it is like a textbook of elementary engineering." Read in this way it is an essential guide not only to Sophoclean tragedy but to the work of so modern a playwright as Bertolt Brecht who considered his own "epic drama" the first non - Aristotelian form.
Title: Aristotle's Poetics
Author(s): Aristotle
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780809005277
Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/1/1961
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights