ENG337H1 Lecture : All For Love Lecture notes
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For wednesday read dryden from an essay of dramatick poesie (1668) part i it is on blackboard. Tragedy is a form of drama exciting the emotions of pity and fear. Its action should be single and complete, presenting a reveal of fortune, involving persons renowned and of superior attainments, and it should be written in poetry embellished with every king of artistic expression. The process of releasing, an thereby providing relief from strong or repressed emotions. It is the purging or sweeping away of pity and fear aroused (in a spectator) by the tragic action. 30 bce seen as the instigator of that downfall it"s been one year since the battle of actium. Background of the history between antony and cleopatra. She wasn"t pure and perfect when he got her. He puts her in a hierarchy ladder. He may have had my body but you conquered my heart.
