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What does Tragedy do for People?

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A discussion of what the use of tragedy is, and whether the emotional experience of tragic theatre is simply a passing thrill or a vital part of life.

Date Published: 01 March 2010
Contributors:
Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings
In Collection(s): Questioning Genre
Keywords:
Aristotle, theory of tragedy, theory of emotion, cognition, history of ideas, literature, theatre, shakespeare, greek, drama, catharsis, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: What does Tragedy do for People? by Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/what-does-tragedy-do-people. Published on 01 March 2010. Accessed on 19 November 2024.

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