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online resource |
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Michael Chemers: Academic; |
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Not available for commercial use, sale, or reproduction. |
| Summary |
Michael M. Chemers, Associate Professor of Dramatic Literature at the University of California in Santa Cruz, details the origins of tragedy - a theatrical practice that emerged in Ancient Greece, involving highly sophisticated dramas with serious themes. Referring to Aristotle's Poetics, Chemers explains how tragedies were often presented in three parts and were designed to produce eleos (empathy) and phobos (fear). |
| Local Note |
Digital Theatre Plus |
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Classical Tragedy (Concise Introduction). |
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Adaptation & Translation
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Audience & Spectatorship
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Classical
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History & Society
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Text & Interpretation
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Tragedy
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Digital Theatre
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