... Class of 1997 Melissa Balint Class of 1997 Franklin & Marshall College Tragedy as an art form was invented in ancient Greek dramas. The philosopher Aristotle discussed the art form in his Poetics. This work, written down from his students' notes, was an attempt to describe what makes a tragedy ... context of the ideas of the nineteenth century, and it is those understandings which can be seen in The Mayor of Casterbridge. For instance, Aristotle noted that ancient Greek tragedies are always the personal tragedies of a particular person, the protagonist, and that person is of the upper c...

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... published Cromwell, a long, unstageable, historical drama. The play is not regarded to be as important to the Romantic Revolution so much as the play's preface. John Frey states in his book, A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia, that the preface to Cromwell is the "culmination of Romantic emancipation from the tenets of the French classic dramaturgy- (76). To fully understand just how revolutionary Hugo ... 's ideas were one must understand the strict theatrical rules held in place the French Classical system. Classicism refers to the aesthetic principles in Aristotle's "Poetics." For theater, this...

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