The Difference between Comedy and Tragedy (Aristotle's Poetics)

[@zipperpillow]

Nicely boiled down. I've just read a translation of the Poetics and watching this and hearing it spoken helps me secure it's main points in my memory. Thank you.

[@syntheticsol]

Fascinating stuff, nice job siting all your sources, people need to learn from you. Keep up the good work.

[@groovi35]

Underrated channel

[@joseserratos6013]

Crazy how he said that a lot of people laugh at the faults of those with great power . Correlated greatly with those lost in the titan submarine implosion

[@DodoJacket]

If people laugh at your tragedy it's comedy, if people don't laugh at your comedy it's a tragedy. I do believe this was how they were compartmentalized and tested and met with during traveling troupes.

[@All4mula]

If it happens to you its comedy, if it happens to me it's a tragedy

[@groundfloorguthrie]

I think that Keith Johnstone has sufficiently challenged Miller's view. While the subject of a Tragedy may be portraying a 'common man', there are actually two category's of Status. That which you 'are' and that which you 'play'. You may be a low-end salesman, but you must perform Willy Loman a certain way, or else the play will not work. Imagine casting Bottom The Weaver or Barney Fife as Loman. As soon as one understood what is going on, one would immediately 'know' they were watching a farce, and not a serious presentation of 'Death...'. He may be a low man on the totem pole, but he sees himself as a 'king'... of a sort. A similar statement can be made regarding comedy. Leslie Nielsen was a Romantic Lead until the Zucker brothers cast him as an absurdity-spouting 'Doctor' in Airplane!, to take jabs (among other things) at the Romantic Lead trope. Keith Johnstone was a professor at U of Calgary and has written two books, Impro and Impro For Storytellers, if there is any interest in these ideas.

[@juleysoe3891]

Do you guys know who is the speaker? I’m doing a format and I need the name of the speaker, or should I put Aristotle?

[@ryanjeanes5253]

When a 'low status' character dies, it is also tragic. Took humanity a while to get that one.

[@prendesnivah9181]

Ignorance, innocence, funny, nota funny, contexto, backstories, and then what if itll just get to a point where hoy question everything before an honest laugh is posible unless innocence comes

[@prendesnivah9181]

Comes into play, because of the probabilities of misinterpretation por correlation to a trágico evento.

[@louisbourbon2413]

You forget Aristóteles time was one of strict social heiarchy, people like aristotle would have sympathised more with royalty, you and me wouldve been iliterate commoners back then, we wouldve lived an extremely diferent life to those that could read, ofc modern tragedy is about common man, we can read now, have movies, go to plays etc

[@Richpaulzambia]

I love it

[@gav_mcdougle]

Thanks Kermit

[@BrightNathan-ch2jb]

Maybe you can make it fun

[@something2thinkabout227]

The primary issue that I find with the distinction of History being fact-based and poetry that is to say art being fictional is that history is not just a matter of dates and events but also a matter of personalities and consequences and how you interpret the character of a historic figure or the overall effect of a certain historical event is really a matter of perspective rather than concrete fact. In other words you could say that while generally history is more fact-based and poetry is more fiction based both of them are manifestations of philosophy or interpretations of the world that may differ based on when and where you are.

[@Verulam1626]

Youd really like the book Before Philosophy by Frankfort

[@HamidSsss-h3r]

طنز و کمدی و درام و تراژدی هرکدام نقاط مثبت و منفی دارند و یک انسان معمولی همه ی آنهارا دارد بعضی افراد کمدی هستند و بعضی تراژدی .من هردو را انتخاب می کنم ولی طنز و کمدی را بیشتر دوست دارم